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I'm Rich Demiro and 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.280 this is Rich on Tech, the show where I talk 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.600 about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:34.720 It's also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.600 I believe that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.920 The phone number to the show is triple eight Rich 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.000 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:49.320 two four one zero one. You can also email me. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:54.279 Just go to Rich on tech dot tv hit the 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:59.200 link that says contact. We've got some great guests this week. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.760 Jacob Palm of Best Reviews dot com will join us 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.800 to share top rated gift ideas that you can shop 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:12.680 for this holiday season. Jen Collchrider of Mozilla Foundation's Privacy 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.720 Not Included. We'll talk about their new report, which highlights 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:21.720 gadget privacy concerns with all the smart stuff that we're buying, 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.640 and Matt Swider of the shortcut dot Com we'll talk 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:31.479 about some of the best holiday shopping strategies. I hope 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:36.480 you had a RESTful, enjoyable, and gratitude filled Thanksgiving. I 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.080 wanted to talk to you about some of my favorite 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.440 apps on my phone. I figured, since it is a 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.600 holiday weekend, maybe you're doing some shopping, maybe you're doing 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:49.000 some personalization on your phone, maybe you're getting things set 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.040 up the way you want on your smartphone. Maybe you 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.720 got a new smartphone already. But I figured ou'd go 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.040 over some of the apps that I keep on my 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.760 phone that I really like. And I'm pretty particular. I've 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.440 really like apps that are cross platform, which means they 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.960 work equally well on both iPhone and Android. The reason 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.280 for that is pretty simple. I don't want to be 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.720 locked into any one platform. Some of these apps are 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.520 only available on one platform or another, but for the 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.959 majority of them, they are available on both. Some of 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.680 them do require a subscription fee, others are completely free. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.600 Let's go through some of the apps that I really 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.480 enjoy so and these are in no particular order, but 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.240 the first app is called Artifact. Artifact and this is 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.320 a personalized news app. It's all powered by AI. It 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.760 was started by some of the same folks behind Instagram, 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.160 and so the idea is that it's kind of like 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.760 an Instagram but for articles. So the more you look 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.000 at and read different articles, the more it will serve 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.840 you up similar articles. And that does work across Android 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.200 and iOS. All right, so I know there's a big 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.079 question about which photo storage app to use. My favorite 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.799 has been for many, many years, ever since it was 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.760 Kasa back in the day, is Google Photos. I love 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.280 Google Photos because it is cross platform, it works really well. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.040 It ties into my Google storage. I think that these 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.480 search capabilities are unmatched on this app, So get your 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.960 photos into Google Photos. My only downside is the more 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.840 photos you have inside here backed up, the tougher it 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.560 is to actually get them out using takeout. But I'll 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.880 figure that out one of these days. Chat GBT installed 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.720 on my phones. I love this AI chatbot. It is 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.960 just an impressive, impressive debut of AI. If you don't 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.680 have the official chat GPT app on your phone, I 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.960 highly recommend you download it. I pay for a subscription 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.800 to chat GBT, which gives me access to a couple 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.880 more features, but they did just make one premium feature free, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.720 and that is voice chat. So if you want to 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.520 chat with an AI bot using your voice, download the 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.880 chat GBT app and hit the microphone icon and you 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.560 can do just that. This is a relatively new app 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.360 looking for a good read it later app. So I 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.280 was using Pocket for a long time, but I just 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.480 switched to this app called omnivore O m n i 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.160 v ore. It is cross platform. It works a little 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.200 bit better on iOS as some apps do, but this 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.200 is a free, open source read it later app and 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.680 I really like it because they are privacy focused. You 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.359 can throw anything you want in there, whether it's a 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.960 PDF or an article. It formats it in a nice 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.600 way that you can read it later, and it also 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.360 has labels so you can categorize your items into labels. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.400 And I just find that I don't know, I discovered 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.120 it and it's it's a pretty cool app. So omnivore 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.640 for reading it later. Email me. This is a great app, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.520 and I wish, wish wish this was cross platform. This 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.640 is only available on the iPhone for some reason. There 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.320 is a similar app on Android, but I don't necessarily 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:54.800 like it as much. And I haven't found one that 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.880 I like as much as this one. But email Me 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.440 is just such a great app, and it's just an 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.279 easy way to email yourself notes, links, anything you want. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.760 My email inbox is kind of my to do list, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.280 like an ongoing like I'm always going to see whatever's 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.280 in there, and so if I email myself an article 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.960 or whatever it is, anything, I can just deal with 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.680 it when I'm sitting down at my computer and I 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:21.680 have a chance to look at my inbox and say, oh, yeah, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.000 I want to read this, or I want to act 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:24.960 on this, or I want to do this or whatever. 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:29.400 Telegram is my preferred chat app. We picked this a 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.680 long time ago with my family, so we're all on there. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.640 We have a nice, big group chat and I just 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.200 love it because it works the same way across iPhone 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.440 and Android, so no matter what phone my family members 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.599 are using, we all have the same exact chat day one. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.040 I wish I use this more. This is a journaling app, 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.599 but it's just really simple. It's very clean, it's easy, 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.560 and if you want to start journaling in the new 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.839 year again, it's cross platform and I like that Apple 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.719 is adding a journal app to their seventeen, but it's 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.800 not cross platform, so anything you do in there will 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.719 be stuck on iPhone forever. I like Day one because 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.720 it goes with me. Libby is a great app if 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.359 you haven't downloaded Libby, it is such a great resource 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:19.520 for free books and audiobooks. I absolutely love Libby. Let's 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.560 see Opener. This is a again. This is an iOS 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.559 only app. Opener is an app that lets you open 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.800 up the link in the proper app. So, for instance, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.039 on iOS, everything's sort of sandboxed, and that means that 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.479 if you go to a YouTube video on an app, 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.640 it may just open inside a small browser inside that app. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.479 With Opener, you can actually open that up in the 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.120 proper app by just pressing the share button, and then 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.760 it will figure out which app it should open up 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.719 in and it will do that. It's a really handy app. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.320 I think it costs about two dollars. There's an app 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.520 called What three Words. I really wish more people knew about. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.920 What three Words divides the world into small three meter 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.440 by three meter squares, and each one of them has 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.760 a unique three word address, which means you can tell 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.200 someone where you are exactly using three words. But I 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.160 find that it's very handy for directing people to a 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.200 certain entrance somewhere. So if you're meeting someone at say 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.600 a big park, you know GPS is only going to 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.920 get you to the park with what three words, you 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.560 can show them the exact place you are at that park, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.760 whether it's a certain entrance or a certain area. It 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.600 is really really handy. Whisper Memos I love this app. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.679 I have it installed on my Apple Watch. And again 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:32.160 this is a an iOS only but it is so great. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.520 It uses AI to record and transcribe audio notes and 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.640 memos and it's just really really incredible at what it does. Again, 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.000 you get some for free, but then they do charge 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.680 you just a little bit. Sunshine Contacts is a great 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.200 contact app. This helps you manage your contacts by automatically 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.320 updating their information by looking in their signature in your 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.440 email and so if they have a new phone number 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.440 or something in there, it will attempt to merge all 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.040 that information. It's not perfect, but it does work and 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.720 it's pretty good. I like that. Run out of time here, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:06.280 but Amazon Photos is great for free unlimited photo storage 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.720 if you are a Prime member. Backdrops is great for wallpaper. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:15.440 Splice is great for video editing. Touch Retouch is great 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.760 to remove unwanted objects from your photos. It is so easy. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.560 Fly fin Ai is a great app if you're a 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.480 freelancer and you have expenses that you want to remember 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.400 for tax time. Upside is a great app if you 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.720 want to get cash back on your gas and grocery purchases. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.360 Let's see Real Good is my preferred streaming service guide, 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:38.960 so I use that to keep track of all the 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:43.000 movies I want to see. Recipe Keeper is incredible. You 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.600 can forward a URL to a recipe and it parses 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.439 the data in that recipe and puts it in an 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.640 easy to follow format and organizes it all. It is 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.880 really good at what it does. Two more apps. One 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.560 is called All Trails. It's great for finding hiking, walking, 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.400 and running trails no matter where you are in the world. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.320 And Flighty, which will help you get around the world. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:10.160 It is a great flight tracker. It's available on iOS only. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.079 It is beautifully designed. I hope they come to Android. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.040 You can find links to all of the apps I 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.400 just mentioned on my website. Just go to Rich on 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.440 tech dot TV. Coming up on the show, we'll talk 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.800 to Matt Swider of the shortcut about holiday shopping strategies. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.839 But first it's your turn. Your calls up next. My 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.160 name is rich D Muro and you are listening to 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.920 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.800 Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.160 eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.920 to two four one zero one. Email is also an option. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.640 You can go to the website rich on Tech dot TV. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:52.280 Hit contact. Let's see. Let's get to a question here. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.079 You guys send me so many questions, so let's see. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.520 Isabelle says, my daughter has a brand new Apple Watch. 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.680 She does know I want to use. I would like 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.920 to use it because I think they are very nice looking. However, 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.720 I have an Android cell phone. I don't care to 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.800 connect it, nor do I care to switch to an 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.600 Apple cell phone. My question is can I still use it? 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:13.960 The only thing I actually want to use is the 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.400 time and the watch. I only want to see the time. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.160 Is this possible, please help Isabelle. Yes, it is possible, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.040 and there is a setting for the Apple Watch. You 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.240 do need an iPhone to set up an Apple Watch, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.560 but once it's set up, it will work on its own. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.520 And I don't think you're gonna get the full benefit 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.640 of having an Apple Watch. But if you just want 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.120 the time, like you're saying, then sup. You can absolutely 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.000 do this and it will do some other basic things 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.080 as well. Now, I do think you're gonna need to 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.480 set up an iCloud account to do this, so if 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.319 you don't have that, it's free, you can do that. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.880 But the feature is called family setup, and you actually 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.200 need to use your daughter's iPhone to do this. So 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.600 once you reset the Apple Watch, go into settings and 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.920 factory reset it. That'll bring it to like a fresh start. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.240 Use your phone, your daughter's iPhone to set up the 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.160 Apple Watch, and it will say are you setting this 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.280 up for yourself or a family member? And you are 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.480 the family member, so say yes, I'm setting this up 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.640 for a family member, and it will guide you through 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.199 the process of setting up that phone for you and 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.840 not her phone, so all of your stuff will be 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.880 just on the watch. It will be separate from anything 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.040 that she has on her account. But like I said, 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:23.840 you will need to log in with your own iCloud 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.160 account just so that Apple can keep track of everything 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.920 and make sure that you've got your own account on there. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.280 So you can set that up for free during the 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.320 setup time, and if you just want to use the 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.400 time and the watch, that's fine, but you can use 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.400 other features. I mean, you could use like you know, 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.959 the Stopwatch, the calendar. My kids have Apple Watches and 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.440 they use them independent of a phone, and they do 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.720 a whole bunch of stuff. They've even downloaded little games 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:47.960 on there. So there are definitely things you can do 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.720 on the Apple Watch even if you don't have an iPhone. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.079 And this is because a lot of people use these 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.800 for their kids or even adults that you know may 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.719 have a disability or something like that. You want to 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.280 be able to keep track of them or have this 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:06.240 watch on their wrist. But they're not necessarily using an iPhone. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.439 So there are many many reasons why you might want 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.520 to set this up this way, but it can be 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.680 done very easily. A good question Isabelle, thanks so much 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.920 for writing. Let's see. Rob from Los Angeles says, Hey, Rich, 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.160 I follow you on social media and your podcast, and 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.960 I think you're pretty funny and informative. Oh well, thank you, Rob. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.920 I have a question about two factor authentication apps. I 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:31.000 use two fa open source app and Microsoft Authenticator app. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.480 On my accounts. What if I want to stop using 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.800 Microsoft Authenticator and switch to the two FA app? Will 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:41.079 that create conflict since my accounts were accepting codes generated 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.800 by the app the Microsoft app before, or do I 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.480 have to stick with the same authenticator app once I 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.000 attach the account to one app. Please explain. Thanks in advance. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:55.440 Rob in Los Angeles, Rob, great question. Now it's interesting 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.520 because I don't talk about the two factor authentication apps 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.320 too much, but I think they are very, very important. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.560 And if you've heard of me talk about securing your 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.360 online accounts, there are two ways you do that. Number 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.720 one very strong password, unique password for every account, and 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.000 then the second way is with a two factor authentication 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.560 enabled on your account. And there are two ways of 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:21.960 doing that. And this is why it gets a little 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.800 bit complicated. And I don't want to I don't want 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.520 people to be detracted from doing this right like I 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.040 want them to do this. So I want to make 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.120 it as simple as possible. And the simplest way to 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.520 do two factor authentication is with the text message code. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.439 And so you put in your phone number on something 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.160 like Instagram and it says, hey, we're going to text 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.000 you every time you try to log in. If you 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.080 don't give us that secret code that we text you, 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.600 we're not going to allow this log in to happen. Well, 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.400 the problem is that the cell phones and phone numbers 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.800 are a little bit easier hacked than we'd like, and 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.200 so some people could get a hold of your cell 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:56.160 phone number or intercept that code and hack you still 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.280 even if you have two factor on, but it's still 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.520 a very good way to protect your account in most, 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.600 like ninety nine percent of cases. But if you really 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.599 want to be safe and secure, what you want to 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.080 do is use one of these two factor authentication apps. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.200 And what these apps do is they generate a unique 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.360 code every thirty seconds or so, and when you want 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.199 to log in, you just go to this app and 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.680 you check out the code and you just type it 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.760 in and again that's the second factor. The first is 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.720 you logging into the account. The second is this app 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.200 that is generating a code. Now, the app is nice 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.880 because it is independent of your phone number. So if 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.720 you switch phone lines, if you get a different carrier, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.040 if you get rid of your phone number altogether, you 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.520 don't lose those ways to log into your account because 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.080 you can no longer access those codes. You can get 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.360 them on this app no matter what service you're using. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.240 So that's why I like to use this service whenever possible. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.720 And there are apps called Authie, there are Google Authenticator, 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.280 there's Microsoft Authenticator. There are several of these authentication apps 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.160 out there. You just have to pick one that you like. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.160 I would personally say pick one that does not have 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.800 any any sort of cost because you don't want to 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.080 be paying for this down the line over time. So 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.520 the question rob is can you switch apps? And I 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.080 had to do some research on this one, but I 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.600 looked up on Wired had an article about this, and 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.120 it's funny because I've been not wanting to switch because 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.520 it is a time consuming process, but it can be done. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.320 And so, as I suspected, you basically have to disable 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:26.480 the two factor authentication temporarily and then re enable it 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.440 using the new app. And the way that you do 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.000 that is, once you enable it, typically you just scan 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.400 a QR code on your screen to enable this two 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:38.120 factor authentication. It links up and then all of your 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.000 codes are right on that app. So, for instance, I 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.760 use an app and I've got all of my codes 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.520 on here for Twitter, I've got it for my Facebook 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.360 I've got it for my website at work, I've got 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.480 it for my Instagram, And so, of course the number 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.600 one thing you're thinking is, well, what if someone hacks 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.040 that app? Yeah, you've got to be careful. And this 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.680 is why you have to have password on your phone 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:04.160 or face ID or a fingerprint scanner, and there is 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.360 a log in for that app as well. So again, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.000 all of these things do require a little bit of planning, 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.800 a little bit of kind of just setting things up 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.560 so that they work. And I know people get very 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.640 hesitant to set this stuff up because it sounds so 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.560 complicated and it feels like you're never gonna be able 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.360 to get into your logins when you need to. But 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.840 believe me, I will tell you I get emails every 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.760 single day, every single day from people that get hacked 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:37.000 on Facebook, on Instagram, on their email. And when you 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.800 do that, there is no guarantee that you're getting that 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.760 account back. And I have people that are saying, rich, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.280 I have my photos on there, I have my emails, 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.200 I have all kinds of personal data that I will 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.880 never be able to get back, And I say, you 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.840 know what, I'm sorry, but the reality is you have 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.200 to lock down these accounts, and most people just don't 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.720 want to and if you don't, you will be hacked 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.440 telling you that because it's not not like they're they're 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.080 targeting you, they are just coming after a lot of people. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.399 Rich on Tech is my website, rich on tech dot tv. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:13.199 Go ahead, check me out on Instagram at rich on tech. 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Triple 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.840 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.959 to two four one zero one. Give me a call. 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:33.800 Do you have a question about technology? My name is 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.920 rich Dmiro and you are listening to rich on Tech. 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.600 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.920 out with you talking technology at Triple eight rich one 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:43.280 oh one. 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:44.639 This is it. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.520 This is the holiday shopping season. We are in full swing, 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.560 in the thick of it. And joining me now is 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.000 Matt Swider of the Shortcut dot Com, a newsletter which 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.560 aims to simplify your life. Matt, thanks so much for joining. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.119 Me, Thanks for having me. This is graduated, all right. 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.320 So tell me why you started the shortcut dot com. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.800 You said to simplify folks lives. Do you think there's 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.280 an over abundance of information out there? 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.240 Yeah, especially when you're reading content and the keyword, the 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.520 answer that you're looking for is buried in the fifth paragraph. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:15.920 It's not just you. 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.159 That's really a tactic that people use to keep you 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.840 on the page. I want to give you the quickest answer. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.400 And when I was helping people find a PS five 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.800 in stock, I just was shooting out links so that 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.440 they would get the item they wanted. And that's happening 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.639 all over again with a bunch of other items that 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.840 people want, including the PlayStation portal, so trying to get 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:37.920 the people they answer as quickly as possible. 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.960 So how are the deals shaping up this holiday shopping season. 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:43.240 They're pretty good. 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.679 A lot of people really want cheap TVs and they 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:50.600 want that PlayStation portal. They also want a lot of 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.480 the Apple Watch is really popular, and of course every 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.800 year it's the air pods. AirPods are the number one 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.879 gift because it's an easy stocking stuffer. It counts as 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.080 the big gifts for a lot people. If you get 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.119 that airpod's pro too, and that's down to one hundred 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.640 and sixty nine dollars, So that's a really good price 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.000 if you find it out there for that because those 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.080 the stock on that is very limited. 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:13.520 So we're kind of in the thick of it every 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.440 day we're tracking these prices. We know kind of like 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.680 how much these things sell for. But if you just 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.840 see a price online. You don't always know if that's 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.080 the best price, if it's kind of you know, you 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.760 see these wild discounts, you know, thirty percent off, forty 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:29.040 percent off. What was anyone actually paying that full price? 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.400 So how do we know when something's an actual deal 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.840 and not just marked up to be discounted. 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.600 That's a great question, because, yeah, a lot of retailers, 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.800 especially the Samsungers of the world, will launch at a 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.800 huge price for those early adopters and then just drop 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.520 it off by half over the course of a year. 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.639 You'll see those launch prices and there will be the 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.080 list price. They'll be crossed out, and that's great. But 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:55.960 usually using tools like Camel Camel Camel, which I still 0:20:56.040 --> 0:21:00.399 use tried and true, that will give you some insight 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:04.160 at least if the prices dropped recently or if it's 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.520 you know, been lower before. I use that a lot, 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.720 but a lot of price tracking tools on Twitter, that's 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.399 what I use. I use a discord and I have 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.080 like things pinging me, so I take that information from 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.520 a discord where it's automatically tracking the prices and putting 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:23.760 it out on Twitter and sending people notifications. 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.040 What do you think are some of the best ways 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.400 to research a product to see if it's worthwhile. 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.119 Yeah, a lot of reviews out there will tell you 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.720 if the price is going to be discount nowadays because 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.879 their method is sending you affiliate links, and that actually 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.600 acts as a really good way to get an updated review. 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:46.960 So a lot of the reviews and buying guides out 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.359 there still hold a lot of weight for a lot 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.320 of consumers because they google something, they find that information, 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:54.360 and now they're being updated a lot more than work 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:58.000 in past years because they want to fulfill that e 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.440 commerce revenue. Well, that really helps out a lot of 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.280 people because they'll they'll always tell you the lowest price. 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:05.880 Okay, so this is something that I always get. People 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.280 email me a link to something and say, Rich, this 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:10.679 is a really good price. How do you know if 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:13.040 something is too good to be true? Is it just 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.760 based on the retailer. I don't want to like discount 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:18.080 you know, any company I haven't heard of and not 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:20.240 shop there ever again. But at the same time, I 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:21.280 don't want to get ripped off. 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:24.159 Yeah, a simple Google search if you haven't heard of 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:28.840 the main brand, usually that's a bad sign. Yeah, you 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.240 want to shop at the you know, for the lowest price. 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:35.080 But there are some websites that are not well put together, 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:39.400 don't have anything in the footer, and look pretty scammy. Yeah, 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:41.320 if it's too good to be true, it usually is, 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:44.200 and I would avoid that as much as possible. Go 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:46.840 with places that you know until you're familiar with it, 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:49.359 until a friend says, I bought this at X shop. 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:51.800 You've never heard of it before, but at least there's 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:53.080 some sort of testimonial there. 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:56.800 I always check for the return policy and the contact 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:59.840 information as well, because if you can't find those two 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:03.119 before you make a purchase, you're definitely not going to 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:04.560 find them after you make a purchase. 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:05.320 Absolutely. 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:09.879 What about the difference between shopping online and shopping in store. 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:12.959 I know that you love to take your pictures outside 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:15.160 the Best Buy and all these places where you find 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:18.200 these products. Do you have better luck one way or 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:18.480 the other? 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:22.560 I have better luck online, And what I tell people 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:27.960 is shop online, reserve it for in store, pickup. That way, 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:31.639 you're guaranteed to get that price if it happens to 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:35.160 be cheaper in the store for some reason. Usually they're 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:37.880 pretty good at keeping parody with you know, in store 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:40.040 prices and online prices, but if it happens to be 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:42.040 cheaper in the store, then you can just cancel that 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:44.040 order when you get there and pick it up for 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:46.920 a store price, So you know, you get in the 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:48.800 best of both worlds by shopping that way. 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:52.440 What about price matching? Do retailers even price match this 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:54.879 time of the year or they over that they do. 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:58.639 There are some retailers that do, but a lot of 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:00.879 times the item has to be in stock. So if 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:03.320 you go to best Buy, for example, and something is 0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:06.639 at Amazon but it's not quite in stock, but it 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:08.480 was in stock, well, they won't price match that. 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:10.120 So that's a little bit of a caveat. 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:13.480 But if you do your dute diligence and you you 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:17.320 screenshot something, maybe you'll talk to, you know, someone at 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:19.840 the retail shop and they'll they'll give you that best price. 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:22.800 So always take screenshots. That's one of the big tips 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:23.119 out there. 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:25.359 Now. One of the ways that you've amassed such a 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:29.280 large following was helping people find hard to find products. 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:32.919 Is it the case anymore? Are people? Are these products 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:35.720 sold out? You mentioned that the PlayStation portal is tough 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:37.200 to find. Tell me about some of the products to 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:39.440 year that we may have trouble getting our hands on 0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:42.399 or are all of those inventory issues a thing in 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:42.800 the past. 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:45.159 For the most part, the inventory issues are a thing 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:45.560 of the past. 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:49.359 There's some key items, some you know, Disney merchandise that 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:51.040 people want that's really hard to get. 0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:55.600 PlayStation portal is the impossible. 0:24:55.080 --> 0:24:58.280 Thing to find right now, and besides that, it's finding 0:24:58.440 --> 0:25:01.960 things that are usually readily available at the best possible price. 0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:04.359 So if you're going to spend you know, two hundred 0:25:04.400 --> 0:25:07.080 dollars on the AirPods, you're overpaying. But that one hundred 0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:09.040 and sixty nine dollars deal for the AirPods Pro two, 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:11.760 well that's what's hard to get these days. So that's 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:14.840 where I still come in to play for a lot 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:15.200 of people. 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:18.560 I noticed this trend of retailers reserving their best prices 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:21.639 for their members. Now Amazon's been doing that forever, but 0:25:22.000 --> 0:25:24.920 now we're seeing Walmart Plus, we're seeing Best Buy, which 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:27.359 you just mentioned. They have some sort of program and 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:31.280 target obviously Target Circle, but that's free to join. So 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:32.399 tell me about this trend. 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:36.000 Yeah, I think the margins are becoming slim at all 0:25:36.040 --> 0:25:40.080 these retailers. You know, they made very little if nothing 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:43.159 on the PlayStation five, for example. So they said, all right, 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:45.120 we have these hot products, but we're not making any 0:25:45.200 --> 0:25:47.760 money off of it. So what they were doing was 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:50.919 locking the hot products behind and their best deals behind 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:54.240 a paywall, which you know, for example, Walmart Plus, they 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:57.320 saw what Amazon was doing, they said, okay, let's encourage 0:25:57.320 --> 0:26:00.679 people to get our two day free shipping pay fifty 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:02.359 to one hundred dollars a year. They used to be 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:04.359 one hundred dollars a year, but they dropped down fifty 0:26:04.440 --> 0:26:07.639 for the time being, and they were, you know, locking 0:26:07.840 --> 0:26:11.119 really key deals. And they're continuing to do that at 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:14.639 least for three hours during the Black Friday push. So 0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:17.160 they're saying, okay, we're not making a lot of money 0:26:17.320 --> 0:26:22.120 off of electronics. At least we're making fifty dollars ahead 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:27.240 off of each household. So that is a tactic that 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:30.200 consumers don't love, but they in the end do love 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.000 the benefits because fifty dollars a year for something that's 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:35.880 equivalent to Amazon Prime is a pretty good deal. 0:26:35.920 --> 0:26:37.680 If Walmart is your number one retailer. 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:39.919 All right, so do you have any recommendations for us, 0:26:39.960 --> 0:26:41.280 Do you have anything that we should be on the 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:41.800 lookout for. 0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:45.199 A lot of people want this PlayStation portal. My one 0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:47.680 piece of advice if you can't find it, there is 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:50.920 something called the Backbone one controller and that's one hundred 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:54.480 dollars less, so it's actually on sale for thirty dollars 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:56.639 less on top of that, so you can get for 0:26:57.000 --> 0:27:00.520 about sixty nine seventy dollars out there, depending on which 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:04.200 retail retailer you go with. But it turns your cell 0:27:04.240 --> 0:27:08.080 phone into almost like a PlayStation portal. So you know, 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:09.959 if you can't get that number one gift, there are 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:12.800 always alternatives out there. And that's my you know, big 0:27:12.880 --> 0:27:15.639 suggestion for people is you know there's there's something to 0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:18.639 you know, put under the tree or to to you know, 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:21.479 a gift to give somebody, because there are a lot 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:23.920 of options out there when it comes to technology that 0:27:24.200 --> 0:27:25.960 you know, even if you can't find that perfect gift, 0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:28.399 there's there's something out there to you know, fulfill that 0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:28.880 wish list. 0:27:29.280 --> 0:27:31.080 And what are you playing with this season? What's your 0:27:31.160 --> 0:27:32.640 what's your top pick for yourself? 0:27:33.600 --> 0:27:36.720 I'm really looking forward to diving into Spider Man two. 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:40.160 That's the new PlayStation five video game that is really 0:27:40.200 --> 0:27:43.359 really popular. Uh it is it's free if you buy 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:47.000 a PlayStation slim, so you're saving seventy dollars there. And uh, 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:50.200 I got a new tcl Roku TV, so I'm looking 0:27:50.240 --> 0:27:53.560 forward to, you know, using that along with my PlayStation five. 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:57.840 Two very popular items. Matt Swider of the shortcut dot Com, 0:27:58.000 --> 0:27:59.400 thanks so much for joining me today. 0:27:59.760 --> 0:27:59.960 Thanks. 0:28:00.000 --> 0:28:01.600 This is Allay rich I'll put a link to Matt's 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:04.360 website on mine. Just go to rich on Tech dot 0:28:04.480 --> 0:28:07.040 tv to sign up to be a member of the 0:28:07.080 --> 0:28:10.120 shortcut dot com or get his free newsletter More rich 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:11.320 on Tech coming your way. 0:28:11.480 --> 0:28:12.080 Right after this. 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:19.600 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Triple eight rich one 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:22.720 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:28:23.040 --> 0:28:26.680 one zero one. Let's go to line one Feruza in 0:28:27.040 --> 0:28:28.800 Los Angeles. Did I say that right? 0:28:29.440 --> 0:28:29.640 Yes? 0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:30.040 You did? 0:28:30.600 --> 0:28:30.919 Great? 0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:32.240 How much for taking my call? 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:35.240 Absolutely? What can I help you with today? 0:28:36.840 --> 0:28:41.320 I have an iPhone six and this holiday season I'm 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:45.520 going to upgrade to an iPhone thirteen or fourteen. And 0:28:45.640 --> 0:28:51.840 I'm particularly interested in the double Eastern feature because I 0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:56.680 do travel internationally a fair bit and I just wanted 0:28:56.760 --> 0:29:00.880 to understand is it the same on both the thirteen 0:29:00.960 --> 0:29:02.840 and fourteen? And how does it work? 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:06.200 Yeah, it is the same feature they've been I think 0:29:06.240 --> 0:29:08.520 they've had this on the iPhone since the iPhone ten. 0:29:09.160 --> 0:29:11.600 They did it secretly for many years just to test 0:29:11.680 --> 0:29:13.840 it out, make sure it worked, and then they decided 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:17.760 to say no more SIM cards with the last year's phone. 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:21.600 So now there's no there's no physical SIM card slot 0:29:21.720 --> 0:29:24.160 inside the iPhone anymore. But the way the eSIM works, 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:27.520 especially for travel, is that you would have your regular SIM, 0:29:27.640 --> 0:29:29.560 which is still an e SIM, but you can have 0:29:29.680 --> 0:29:31.760 multiple SIMS on your phone. You can have a bunch 0:29:31.800 --> 0:29:33.960 of them. I had I think like two or three 0:29:34.040 --> 0:29:36.520 on my phone at one time, and you can activate them, 0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:38.840 you can deactivate them, you can keep going on there 0:29:38.880 --> 0:29:40.640 for a long time and just activate it when you 0:29:40.720 --> 0:29:43.400 go to a different country. But the way you install 0:29:43.480 --> 0:29:45.160 it is you just you know, let's say you have 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:48.400 one of your main carriers here, that's you know, Verizon, 0:29:48.560 --> 0:29:52.760 T Mobile, any you know, Mint Mobile, whatever it is. 0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:55.400 You've got your main SIM, and then you can add 0:29:55.520 --> 0:29:58.640 a secondary SIM, and that secondary SIM could be an 0:29:58.720 --> 0:30:03.120 international SIM, it could be even a secondary cellular line 0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:06.360 here in America. So let's say you wanted one SIM 0:30:06.520 --> 0:30:09.520 for your phone calls and one for your data, or 0:30:09.640 --> 0:30:11.680 even two for your data. You can set that up, 0:30:11.760 --> 0:30:14.320 so it's really unlimited what you can do. But the 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:17.520 way it works overseas, in particular, what I do is 0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:20.680 I typically turn off my main SIM and then flip 0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:23.800 on the international SIM and then that way I can 0:30:23.840 --> 0:30:26.760 still use my data through the international SIM and not 0:30:26.880 --> 0:30:29.440 pay the roaming charges. And there's a lot of different 0:30:29.440 --> 0:30:31.800 ways to do this, but that's kind of generally how 0:30:31.880 --> 0:30:35.240 it works. If you're traveling internationally to a different country, 0:30:35.480 --> 0:30:38.360 you can pick up a local eSIM there, or you 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:41.320 can use one of these companies that lets you activate 0:30:41.360 --> 0:30:43.240 an eSIM right from your phone. So the one I 0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:48.760 always talk about is airlow US Mobile also has one, 0:30:49.200 --> 0:30:52.400 but there are many many different companies that do this, 0:30:53.040 --> 0:30:55.760 And so if you just look up e SIM for 0:30:55.840 --> 0:30:57.880 the country you want to go to, you can do 0:30:58.000 --> 0:31:00.160 that and set it up very easily here in the 0:31:00.240 --> 0:31:02.760 States before you leave. But I think that it's a 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:05.640 very simple system. The only place where it gets a 0:31:05.680 --> 0:31:08.320 little complicated is if you want to continue. Most of 0:31:08.360 --> 0:31:11.960 these eSIMs are data only, but that's also changing, so 0:31:12.120 --> 0:31:15.000 the eSIM that you get for overseas might just candle 0:31:15.120 --> 0:31:17.920 data and not calls. But that makes sense because you 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:19.640 don't want to give someone a different phone number just 0:31:19.760 --> 0:31:22.120 when you're overseas. They just want to call your regular 0:31:22.120 --> 0:31:24.360 phone number. So in that case, I recommend that you 0:31:24.520 --> 0:31:28.120 turn on your Rome. You're not your roaming but your 0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:32.720 Wi Fi calling. Jony on Twitter at rich on Tech 0:31:32.840 --> 0:31:35.000 or x I should say, says, is there any way 0:31:35.080 --> 0:31:38.960 to take low resolution photos on the new iPhone? Those 0:31:39.040 --> 0:31:42.360 three point eight megapixel photos eat up storage and I 0:31:42.440 --> 0:31:45.680 don't always need the high res thanks rich on Tech. Well, 0:31:45.720 --> 0:31:48.280 the photos aren't three point eight megapixels. I think the 0:31:48.560 --> 0:31:51.640 storage space is three point eight And yes, on the 0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:56.520 new iPhone, the default megapixels is twenty four now, which 0:31:56.600 --> 0:31:59.000 is amazing because you're getting so much more data on 0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:02.000 your photos, which means you can zoom in, you can crop, 0:32:02.120 --> 0:32:05.280 you just have a lot more flexibility with the amount 0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:07.800 of data these photos carry because they are twenty four 0:32:07.840 --> 0:32:10.200 megapixels by default. If you don't want them to be 0:32:10.280 --> 0:32:13.280 twenty four megapixels, if you want to go back to twelve, 0:32:13.400 --> 0:32:17.120 you can. You go to settings, you go to camera, 0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:20.480 and you go to formats and then inside there it 0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:24.240 says photo capture photo mode twenty four megapixels. You tap 0:32:24.320 --> 0:32:26.880 there and you can tap twelve and you can take 0:32:26.920 --> 0:32:31.520 your twelve megapixel photos just like before. According to Apple, 0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:34.880 a twelve megapixel photo will be about two megabytes, a 0:32:35.120 --> 0:32:37.800 twenty four megapixel photo will be about three megabytes. But 0:32:37.920 --> 0:32:40.440 like you said, Jony, it's probably closer to about three 0:32:40.560 --> 0:32:43.320 point eight. Let me see on my phone here what 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:46.280 my latest picture is. So if I just pick one 0:32:46.320 --> 0:32:49.360 of these photos here and uh, let's see this photo 0:32:49.680 --> 0:32:54.120 is oh five point eight mega five point eight megabytes. Wow, 0:32:54.240 --> 0:32:57.920 So Apple, Apple's really being conservative in their estimates. But 0:32:58.120 --> 0:33:01.640 again with today's storage on the phones, I would say 0:33:01.680 --> 0:33:03.600 take the bigger photos. But if you don't need to 0:33:03.800 --> 0:33:05.400 need that, just go ahead and you can change that 0:33:05.480 --> 0:33:10.840 in the settings. Let's go to Tatiana in Banning, California, 0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:12.600 Line one, Tatiana your own with Wretch. 0:33:13.240 --> 0:33:13.360 Hi. 0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:17.840 Well, I was calling about herb about YouTube. You know, 0:33:18.080 --> 0:33:20.840 I wonder if you know if you could help me. 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:26.320 I have a prime membership with YouTube and it's worth fine. 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:29.760 Until last week and the last few days I keep 0:33:31.720 --> 0:33:37.040 receiving all those you know, notification that I have end blockers. 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:43.400 I have either to unblock or to switch to Prime 0:33:43.520 --> 0:33:47.600 membership and I already have Prime membership and I keep 0:33:47.720 --> 0:33:51.200 telling them sort of, and they said, report the issue 0:33:51.280 --> 0:33:54.720 if it's not correct, and I keep reporting that, Hello, 0:33:54.880 --> 0:33:57.320 I am a pro, I have Prime membership, and you 0:33:57.520 --> 0:34:01.840 keep blocking me because sometimes they block block and yesterday 0:34:02.160 --> 0:34:06.080 I was not able to watch YouTube at all. And 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:09.000 not that I you know, but the point is that 0:34:09.600 --> 0:34:12.640 why should I? You know, I have my Prime membership 0:34:12.800 --> 0:34:17.279 and the worst thing is to reach anybody on YouTube 0:34:17.760 --> 0:34:21.200 by a phone is not possible. They offer you chat, 0:34:21.920 --> 0:34:25.480 and the chat, you know, I tell him, Okay, I 0:34:25.640 --> 0:34:29.440 have Prime membership. Why you are you want me to 0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:32.120 switch to Prime if I already have fun and you 0:34:32.160 --> 0:34:35.400 are blocking me? And she says you have to remove 0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:39.799 ad blocks, but okay, I show them up. 0:34:39.920 --> 0:34:40.080 You know. 0:34:40.200 --> 0:34:41.280 That's what you understand. 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:45.800 Okay, teams. So a couple of things happening here. So 0:34:46.400 --> 0:34:51.920 number one, you're referring to YouTube Prime membership. So Amazon 0:34:52.120 --> 0:34:54.600 offers a Prime membership. So if you have an Amazon 0:34:54.680 --> 0:34:58.280 Prime membership, that does not give you access to YouTube, 0:34:59.320 --> 0:35:01.640 you know, without a So that's number one. So it 0:35:01.760 --> 0:35:05.200 is a separate membership. So if you are talking about YouTube, 0:35:05.360 --> 0:35:07.719 what it's called is YouTube Premium When it first was 0:35:07.760 --> 0:35:10.040 introduced a couple of years ago, it was called YouTube Read. 0:35:10.560 --> 0:35:13.200 They have changed the name to YouTube Premium. And the 0:35:13.239 --> 0:35:15.560 way that you can check if you have YouTube Premium, 0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:18.480 if you are paying, I believe I pay twenty two 0:35:18.480 --> 0:35:20.080 to ninety nine a month. I don't know how much. 0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:22.080 I think it's fifteen ninety nine a month for the 0:35:22.719 --> 0:35:25.920 standard I've got the family plan. But let's see the 0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:29.799 standard plan individuals. Yeah, thirteen ninety nine a month. Family 0:35:29.920 --> 0:35:31.839 is twenty two ninety nine a month. So you can 0:35:32.000 --> 0:35:34.880 check to see if you are on a YouTube Premium 0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:38.759 plan which gives you YouTube and YouTube music ad free 0:35:39.360 --> 0:35:42.640 offline and in the background. You can go to YouTube 0:35:42.680 --> 0:35:45.640 dot com slash premium and when I go to that page, 0:35:45.760 --> 0:35:48.560 it says you have YouTube Premium managed. So that's the 0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:51.000 first thing, Tatiana. If you don't see that when you 0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:54.160 go to that website, you don't have YouTube Premium. Now. 0:35:54.520 --> 0:35:56.520 The second way to check is to go to YouTube 0:35:56.520 --> 0:35:59.480 dot com and in the left hand corner, in the 0:35:59.560 --> 0:36:03.360 upper left corner, your YouTube icon changes from YouTube to 0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:07.560 a little icon of the YouTube screen and it says premium. 0:36:08.000 --> 0:36:09.879 So that's number one. We just need to make sure 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:12.160 that you're actually referring to what you have. If you 0:36:12.239 --> 0:36:14.640 have Amazon Prime, that does not give you access to 0:36:15.000 --> 0:36:18.080 YouTube Premium. Now the second part of what you're talking about, 0:36:18.160 --> 0:36:22.040 the ad blocker. YouTube has been cracking down on people 0:36:22.160 --> 0:36:25.720 using ad blockers to get rid of ads on YouTube. 0:36:25.880 --> 0:36:29.960 Why because YouTube and Google make a whole lot of 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:33.759 money on serving up ads during YouTube videos, and in 0:36:33.840 --> 0:36:35.680 the past people were able to get around some of 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:39.440 those ads by putting an ad blocker on on their computer. Well, 0:36:39.680 --> 0:36:42.279 YouTube does not like that, so they are cracking down, 0:36:42.400 --> 0:36:45.319 not on everyone, not in every instance, not on every time, 0:36:45.719 --> 0:36:48.080 but they are cracking down on some of the use 0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:50.960 of ad blockers on YouTube. So if you do have 0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:53.120 an ad blocker on your system and you're trying to 0:36:53.160 --> 0:36:56.080 access YouTube, you will have to pause that ad blocker, 0:36:56.640 --> 0:36:58.840 and you can do that by tapping your ad blocker, 0:36:58.920 --> 0:37:03.399 and usually you can you can what's called allow list 0:37:03.680 --> 0:37:06.600 the website, so you can say, do not use this 0:37:06.760 --> 0:37:10.200 ad blocker on the YouTube dot com website because it 0:37:10.239 --> 0:37:13.160 will not function properly. And in general, if you're using 0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:17.279 an ad blocker on your computer, you can disable that 0:37:17.440 --> 0:37:19.759 for a website. If a website you visit is not 0:37:19.920 --> 0:37:23.040 working or it feels a little wonky, then it's probably 0:37:23.080 --> 0:37:26.360 your AD blocker that is interfering. Thanks for the call today, Tatiana. 0:37:26.520 --> 0:37:28.839 You are listening to Rich on Tech. Give me a call. 0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:32.960 It's triple a Richt to Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:37:33.080 --> 0:37:36.560 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. This 0:37:36.920 --> 0:37:38.800 is the show where I talk about the tech stuff 0:37:38.840 --> 0:37:41.120 that I think you should know about. It's also the 0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:43.600 place where I answer your questions. And that's exactly what 0:37:43.680 --> 0:37:46.080 I'm gonna do. Right now. You can go to the 0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:49.080 website rich on Tech dot tv, hit the link that 0:37:49.120 --> 0:37:52.600 says contact and send me your question. And that's exactly 0:37:52.680 --> 0:37:56.480 what Sierra did. Sierra says, Hey, Rich love your tech shows. 0:37:56.480 --> 0:37:59.040 I listen to you every week for important tech updates. 0:37:59.160 --> 0:38:03.560 My question is what browser do you prefer? Chrome, Safari, Firefox, 0:38:03.680 --> 0:38:07.439 et cetera. And why. Thanks for all that you do. Well, 0:38:07.480 --> 0:38:09.759 I will tell you that Chrome is my preferred web 0:38:09.840 --> 0:38:13.160 browser and that is because of several reasons. Number one, 0:38:13.560 --> 0:38:16.520 I like how it integrates with Google products. I like 0:38:16.600 --> 0:38:19.239 the extensions that you can get for it. And it 0:38:19.480 --> 0:38:22.600 was very slow for a while. I think that Google 0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:24.919 was very aware of that, especially on the Mac side 0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:27.160 of things, it consumed a lot of resources. It still 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:29.560 kind of does, but I think it has gotten better, 0:38:30.320 --> 0:38:32.680 maybe through a combination of some software updates and a 0:38:32.760 --> 0:38:35.680 better computer that I have. But I like Chrome because 0:38:35.800 --> 0:38:38.080 it's what I'm used to and it's what works for me. 0:38:38.640 --> 0:38:40.840 I also like, like I said, the extensions that are 0:38:40.880 --> 0:38:43.880 available for it. I personally would recommend that you block 0:38:44.000 --> 0:38:47.399 your third party cookies if you are using Chrome. That way, 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:50.680 your browsing history is not passed along to different websites, 0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:52.719 or at least it's a little more private as far 0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:53.399 as I can tell. 0:38:53.880 --> 0:38:54.000 Now. 0:38:54.040 --> 0:38:56.640 When it comes to Mozilla Firefox, I think there's more 0:38:56.719 --> 0:38:59.840 privacy out of the gate, like I think the settings 0:38:59.840 --> 0:39:03.080 are made in a way that protects user privacy just 0:39:03.160 --> 0:39:06.600 a little bit more than Chrome. However, not as popular 0:39:06.640 --> 0:39:08.480 as Chrome. I mean, Chrome is really the number one 0:39:08.520 --> 0:39:11.480 browser with a very large market share. And then when 0:39:11.480 --> 0:39:14.640 it comes to Safari, I think that the market share 0:39:14.719 --> 0:39:15.360 is really tiny. 0:39:15.440 --> 0:39:15.600 There. 0:39:15.760 --> 0:39:18.640 On iPhone, it's huge because that is the default browser. 0:39:19.080 --> 0:39:22.200 But on the MacBook computers and especially the Windows computers, 0:39:22.280 --> 0:39:26.640 people use either Chrome or a Microsoft product. So Safari 0:39:26.840 --> 0:39:30.680 is really fast. It's just not my preferred web browser now. 0:39:30.760 --> 0:39:32.879 The other one that I really do like is called 0:39:32.960 --> 0:39:36.440 Microsoft Edge and it is very similar to Chrome in 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:38.680 many ways. The only thing I don't like about it 0:39:38.880 --> 0:39:41.480 is how they force a lot of Microsoft products on me. 0:39:41.800 --> 0:39:44.560 But it's funny because Chrome pretty much does the same thing. 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:48.200 But since I use more Google products, it doesn't bother 0:39:48.360 --> 0:39:51.279 me as much. So the browser that you want to use, 0:39:51.400 --> 0:39:54.359 I think really comes down to personal preference, and any 0:39:54.440 --> 0:39:56.399 of them are good. I think that the main thing 0:39:56.480 --> 0:39:59.880 to know is just be aware of the privacy setting 0:40:00.320 --> 0:40:03.240 and tweak those so that you are protecting your privacy 0:40:03.600 --> 0:40:05.800 as you browse the web. Thanks for the question, Sierra. 0:40:06.680 --> 0:40:09.960 Up next is Ed. Ed says, great show as usual. 0:40:10.120 --> 0:40:13.600 My question is on my Gmail app on iPad, when 0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:16.560 I swipe left, it goes to archive. I want to 0:40:16.640 --> 0:40:19.360 swipe left to delete. Please help me with that. Also, 0:40:19.480 --> 0:40:22.080 how do I access my archive to get rid of 0:40:22.200 --> 0:40:26.080 those archived files? Well, first off, Ed, you can easily 0:40:26.160 --> 0:40:27.839 switch this. In fact, this is one of the first 0:40:27.880 --> 0:40:30.239 things I do anytime I set up a new phone. 0:40:31.360 --> 0:40:35.680 By default, Gmail has certain swipes that I don't like, 0:40:35.920 --> 0:40:38.680 so I like to swipe right to delete in my 0:40:38.840 --> 0:40:42.560 Gmail and I like to swipe left to archive because 0:40:42.600 --> 0:40:44.719 it just seems right to me. If I swipe right, 0:40:44.800 --> 0:40:47.880 I'm trashing something. If I'm swiping left, I'm archiving it, 0:40:47.960 --> 0:40:50.640 and that means I'm saving it for later. So to 0:40:50.760 --> 0:40:53.120 do this, you open up your Gmail app on your 0:40:53.160 --> 0:40:56.040 iPad or on your phone. You tap the menu, which 0:40:56.080 --> 0:40:58.640 are the three lines in the upper left hand corner. 0:40:59.120 --> 0:41:02.680 Then you scroll to settings and that's all the way down, 0:41:03.520 --> 0:41:06.480 and then you go to inbox customizations. Now this is 0:41:06.520 --> 0:41:09.640 a little bit different on Android versus iOS, but it's 0:41:09.760 --> 0:41:11.640 very similar and you can do both the same things. 0:41:12.360 --> 0:41:17.120 Tap inbox customizations and you will see mail swipe actions 0:41:17.600 --> 0:41:20.719 and it says swipe right, swipe left, and you can 0:41:20.800 --> 0:41:24.319 decide what those do. Now, for your second question, how 0:41:24.360 --> 0:41:27.080 do I see all those archived files? Go back into 0:41:27.160 --> 0:41:30.600 that original menu that I mentioned, and you will see 0:41:30.760 --> 0:41:33.359 an item or a label I should say that says 0:41:33.560 --> 0:41:37.800 all mail. All mail is all of your mail. So 0:41:37.880 --> 0:41:41.560 when you archive something in Gmail, you're actually just marking 0:41:41.600 --> 0:41:43.800 it with a label that does not keep it in 0:41:43.920 --> 0:41:46.600 the main inbox. Because the way that Gmail works, just 0:41:46.680 --> 0:41:49.360 think of it as one ongoing list of all of 0:41:49.400 --> 0:41:51.719 your messages. Some of them are visible, some are not. 0:41:52.080 --> 0:41:55.920 Great question there, let's go to the next question. Ron says, Hey, Rich, 0:41:55.960 --> 0:41:58.600 I'm wondering how my wife has been spying on my 0:41:58.800 --> 0:42:02.320 text messages. I've found some of them printed out on paper. 0:42:02.760 --> 0:42:06.320 I've also seen she's printed out messages from someone else's phone. Also, 0:42:06.840 --> 0:42:08.920 how is she able to do this from her phone? 0:42:09.040 --> 0:42:13.240 Thanks for your help, well, Ron, barring any conspiracy theory 0:42:13.480 --> 0:42:17.120 or magical powers that your wife has, I think that 0:42:17.239 --> 0:42:21.040 you are logged in using the same iCloud account, and 0:42:21.200 --> 0:42:23.520 a lot of times families do this on their phones 0:42:23.960 --> 0:42:26.800 where they have one log in to make things easy, 0:42:27.280 --> 0:42:30.640 but then the text messages and the settings carry over 0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:34.319 to all the different devices. So I'm assuming that your 0:42:34.360 --> 0:42:37.920 wife somehow has access to your text messages based on 0:42:38.080 --> 0:42:41.399 the same iCloud account and the other person's phone. I'm 0:42:41.440 --> 0:42:44.200 guessing that's another family member. So if you don't want 0:42:44.239 --> 0:42:48.040 this to happen, then I would create your own unique 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:50.320 iCloud account. You could still be on a family account 0:42:50.360 --> 0:42:53.280 and still share a lot of the resources on your iCloud, 0:42:53.840 --> 0:42:56.719 but if you want your own private iCloud account, you 0:42:56.800 --> 0:42:59.520 do need to log in and create your own account. 0:43:00.239 --> 0:43:02.640 Next up, Data says, when I go to Disneyland, my 0:43:02.760 --> 0:43:06.840 iPhone fourteen pro dies after sending photos, et cetera. What 0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:09.960 is the strongest charger, phone bank or what else would 0:43:10.040 --> 0:43:13.800 work best? Thank you and happy holidays. Great question, Data. 0:43:13.960 --> 0:43:17.200 I always bring a portable battery with me when I 0:43:17.280 --> 0:43:19.640 go to a place like Disneyland. And here's the reason 0:43:19.680 --> 0:43:22.680 why it's dying so quickly. It's because you're using your 0:43:22.760 --> 0:43:27.759 phone more and a combination of the cellular signal and 0:43:27.880 --> 0:43:30.800 the videos you're taking, all of these things are adding 0:43:30.920 --> 0:43:33.840 up to just really tax the battery on your phone. 0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:36.320 So you're taking more pictures, you're taking more videos, and 0:43:37.120 --> 0:43:39.400 if your phone is set to back up those pictures 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:42.359 and videos, that is using a lot of charge from 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:45.759 your battery. Couple of recommendations. There are three types of 0:43:45.960 --> 0:43:49.680 chargers you can get. One is a mag safe, one 0:43:49.840 --> 0:43:53.640 is a plug, and one is a sort of a 0:43:53.840 --> 0:43:56.880 portable battery pack that has a built in connector. So 0:43:57.200 --> 0:43:59.719 for the recommendations here, I like the Anchor nano power 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:03.400 bank with a built in connector. That's a small battery 0:44:03.440 --> 0:44:06.279 though it's only five thousand millionamp hours. That's basically going 0:44:06.320 --> 0:44:08.400 to give you about one charge but the nice thing 0:44:08.480 --> 0:44:10.520 is it's small and it plugs right into the bottom 0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:13.600 of your phone. Second one is an anchor power bank 0:44:13.719 --> 0:44:18.399 twenty thousand millionamp portable charger, and this you can use 0:44:18.480 --> 0:44:21.280 with USBC. Make sure you find one that has USB 0:44:21.440 --> 0:44:23.560 C in and out. That's going to give you the 0:44:23.600 --> 0:44:26.560 fastest charge both ways, and you will need to bring 0:44:26.600 --> 0:44:30.200 your own cable with this style portable charger. And then 0:44:30.280 --> 0:44:34.160 finally you have a BLKAN wireless power bank with MagSafe. 0:44:35.080 --> 0:44:37.600 This is going to magnetically attached to the back of 0:44:37.680 --> 0:44:40.680 your phone and charge it that way. I don't know 0:44:40.760 --> 0:44:43.319 what the millionamp hours is on this, but it's pretty low. 0:44:43.360 --> 0:44:45.239 But you can get them in different levels. You know, 0:44:45.360 --> 0:44:47.080 depending on how thick it is, it's going to give 0:44:47.080 --> 0:44:50.640 you a bigger charge. The downside to the mag safe 0:44:50.760 --> 0:44:53.120 is that it's going to be the slowest charge out 0:44:53.160 --> 0:44:56.520 of all of these different methods. But definitely get one 0:44:56.560 --> 0:44:59.279 of these, get them while they're on sale over the 0:44:59.680 --> 0:45:04.239 Black Friday Cyber Monday shopping season, and just always keep 0:45:04.280 --> 0:45:07.000 it charged up and with you. Sharon writes in can 0:45:07.040 --> 0:45:10.880 you recommend a photostick flash drive? Thank you? Lots of 0:45:10.960 --> 0:45:14.560 questions about pictures people love to take them, so I 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:17.919 get this question over and over and over. And while 0:45:17.920 --> 0:45:21.759 I don't necessarily love a flash drive for backing up 0:45:21.800 --> 0:45:24.560 my photos, it is an alternative to just backing up 0:45:24.560 --> 0:45:26.440 to the cloud. Personally, I think you should have your 0:45:26.440 --> 0:45:30.239 photos in the cloud and in a secondary place as well, 0:45:30.360 --> 0:45:32.799 in addition to your phone. So what does that mean. 0:45:32.880 --> 0:45:36.240 You can use something like iCloud and also Amazon Photos. 0:45:36.280 --> 0:45:38.600 If you're a Prime member, you can get unlimited backup there, 0:45:38.960 --> 0:45:41.560 but you also want to have your photos in two 0:45:41.680 --> 0:45:44.040 places at once in addition to your phone, so one 0:45:44.040 --> 0:45:46.080 of these flash drives can work as well. I don't 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:48.400 think it'd be best to have them only on a 0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:52.160 flash drive. But the brand I like, sand Disc I Expand. 0:45:52.800 --> 0:45:57.719 So the I Expand has various models Summer Lightning, some 0:45:57.840 --> 0:46:00.759 are USBC depending on the phoney have you plug it 0:46:00.800 --> 0:46:03.040 into the bottom of your phone. It brings up the 0:46:03.080 --> 0:46:05.799 app and you can do a complete backup of your 0:46:05.840 --> 0:46:08.359 photos and videos, So make sure you get the one 0:46:08.400 --> 0:46:11.440 that's right for your phone. Pn Y also makes a 0:46:11.560 --> 0:46:13.880 model that is similar. I think that the software that 0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:17.000 sand Disc has is just slightly better. It works a 0:46:17.040 --> 0:46:19.520 little bit better for me in my testing. All right, 0:46:19.600 --> 0:46:21.719 coming up next, we've got more of your calls at 0:46:21.800 --> 0:46:25.120 triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eighty eight seven 0:46:25.200 --> 0:46:27.839 four to two, four to one zero one. My name 0:46:27.920 --> 0:46:31.279 is Rich d'miro and you are listening to rich on Tech. 0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:35.560 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking 0:46:35.640 --> 0:46:39.160 technology with you at triple eight rich one oh one. 0:46:39.360 --> 0:46:43.640 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:46:43.880 --> 0:46:48.240 zero one. Free call from anywhere inside the US. Marvin 0:46:48.440 --> 0:46:51.520 in Denver, Colorado. Marvin, you're on with Rich Hi. 0:46:51.680 --> 0:46:52.600 Rich, How you doing. 0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:55.680 I'm doing fantastic. How are you good? 0:46:55.840 --> 0:46:56.040 Say? 0:46:56.160 --> 0:46:59.480 I'm trying to get some information on a guest you 0:46:59.600 --> 0:47:03.720 head on some time ago who had developed a computer 0:47:03.840 --> 0:47:08.000 program for baseball cards, another sports member of Bilia. This 0:47:08.120 --> 0:47:10.480 has been about a year ago. But I didn't catch 0:47:10.520 --> 0:47:13.480 his phone number. I think his name might have been 0:47:13.600 --> 0:47:17.160 Ted Mann, but I'm not positive of that. Yeah, good 0:47:17.200 --> 0:47:19.520 memory out how to get in touch with that guest? 0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:23.440 Absolutely, Okay, So the good question, and thanks for calling. 0:47:23.560 --> 0:47:26.800 But so I looked on the website if you go 0:47:26.880 --> 0:47:29.680 to rich on Tech dot tv, that's where you can 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:33.120 typically find anything that I mentioned on the show. And 0:47:33.280 --> 0:47:36.320 so I will tell you I typed in baseball to 0:47:36.480 --> 0:47:40.279 find obviously you know baseball card scanning, and nothing came up. 0:47:40.600 --> 0:47:43.600 So you are absolutely right, Marvin, you had one part 0:47:43.640 --> 0:47:47.240 of the equation. But here's what happened. So the notes 0:47:47.320 --> 0:47:49.680 are on there. And the app, by the way, is 0:47:49.719 --> 0:47:53.520 called collect c l l X. This was invented by 0:47:53.520 --> 0:47:56.239 a New Jersey dad and his son. You're right. His 0:47:56.400 --> 0:47:59.040 name is Ted Man. We did a segment with him 0:47:59.360 --> 0:48:01.000 both on tea and on the radio. 0:48:01.080 --> 0:48:01.200 Here. 0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:04.440 It's a really cool app that helps you scan your 0:48:04.880 --> 0:48:07.440 cards and figure out what the value of them is 0:48:07.640 --> 0:48:12.800 in seconds. So the app uses instant image recognition to 0:48:12.880 --> 0:48:15.759 recognize the card and provides its current market value. You 0:48:15.840 --> 0:48:17.960 can build and track your entire collection. One of my 0:48:18.040 --> 0:48:20.359 friends kept texting me after I'd talked about this app. 0:48:20.600 --> 0:48:22.280 I think it was up to like a couple thousand 0:48:22.360 --> 0:48:24.680 bucks worth of cards on the app. And of course 0:48:24.719 --> 0:48:28.640 you can use the app to connect with other collectors, buy, sell, 0:48:28.719 --> 0:48:32.280 and trade cards, and there's a whole bunch of stuff. 0:48:32.320 --> 0:48:34.040 This thing has just taken on a life of its own. 0:48:34.080 --> 0:48:36.160 I think they added some new AI features as well. 0:48:36.640 --> 0:48:39.880 But again, the app is called Collex co l l 0:48:40.239 --> 0:48:44.680 X dot app and Tedman is on there. He's the founder, 0:48:44.800 --> 0:48:46.880 like you said, and you can email him through the 0:48:46.920 --> 0:48:50.319 website as well. But the reason why you couldn't find 0:48:50.360 --> 0:48:53.960 it on my website is because baseball was not in 0:48:54.040 --> 0:48:57.520 the description. I wrote it down as it says Tedman, 0:48:57.640 --> 0:49:00.839 creator of the Collex app which lets you scan your 0:49:00.960 --> 0:49:04.600 sports card collection. So I should have said I should 0:49:04.640 --> 0:49:07.920 have said, I mean including baseball cards because I figured. 0:49:08.120 --> 0:49:10.320 And by the way, that show was on February eleventh, 0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:13.160 twenty twenty three. That was the sixth episode of the 0:49:13.239 --> 0:49:16.520 radio show. So good memory, thanks for calling, appreciate that, 0:49:16.840 --> 0:49:21.720 and good luck scanning your cards. Let's go to Melody 0:49:21.880 --> 0:49:24.160 in Carlsbad. Melody You're on with Rich. 0:49:25.160 --> 0:49:26.480 Hi Rich listen. 0:49:26.680 --> 0:49:33.239 About probably nine months ago, I received a notice from 0:49:33.640 --> 0:49:37.279 the post office that I had a registered letter. I 0:49:37.440 --> 0:49:42.719 went there and the registered letter was from Geek Squad telling. 0:49:42.600 --> 0:49:44.840 Me that I needed to renew my account. 0:49:45.480 --> 0:49:49.360 Well, I saw that was really odd that they anybody 0:49:49.400 --> 0:49:53.000 would be sending me a registered letter. I thought it 0:49:53.200 --> 0:49:55.200 was a scam. I checked it out, and of course 0:49:55.280 --> 0:49:58.120 it was a scam, so I did nothing with it. 0:49:58.960 --> 0:50:05.319 Then about a month ago I got an email from 0:50:05.600 --> 0:50:09.960 the Geek Squad saying I needed alerting me that my 0:50:10.160 --> 0:50:15.600 account was going to expire and I needed to renew it. Well, 0:50:16.040 --> 0:50:20.080 I ignored that because I knew the Geek Squad that 0:50:20.320 --> 0:50:22.719 it was a scam. I don't have an account with 0:50:22.880 --> 0:50:26.560 geek Squad. I've never done any business with geek Squad, 0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:33.200 So then I ignored the email. A few days ago, 0:50:33.920 --> 0:50:39.200 I get an email from an unknown person advising me 0:50:39.920 --> 0:50:47.880 that my account has been restored or renewed and for 0:50:48.040 --> 0:50:51.840 a charge of I think it was like two hundred 0:50:51.920 --> 0:50:58.800 bucks one nine. Well, I I didn't do anything, you know, 0:50:58.960 --> 0:51:01.840 I have taken any action on that. 0:51:02.520 --> 0:51:05.080 But I'm wondering what do I do? 0:51:05.920 --> 0:51:08.800 Yeah, the only thing I can think of is to 0:51:08.960 --> 0:51:14.600 keep monitoring my credit card accounts. But I can't, you know, 0:51:14.800 --> 0:51:17.160 unless they have I don't know if they have any 0:51:17.160 --> 0:51:18.799 of my credit card information. 0:51:19.200 --> 0:51:21.560 Okay, this is I'm glad you brought this up, Melody, 0:51:21.600 --> 0:51:24.759 because this is happening a lot, a lot, a lot, 0:51:25.280 --> 0:51:29.760 and it is I'm seeing two of the major scams 0:51:29.800 --> 0:51:32.440 out there. One involves a Geek Squad, the other involves 0:51:32.520 --> 0:51:36.200 Norton Anti virus, And so it happens exactly like you're 0:51:36.239 --> 0:51:40.200 saying you get an email that says, here's an invoice 0:51:40.520 --> 0:51:45.680 for your geek Squad service renewal and it's some ungodly amount, 0:51:45.760 --> 0:51:47.839 you know, three hundred ninety eight dollars for the year, 0:51:48.000 --> 0:51:50.759 two hundred ninety eight dollars, whatever it is, and it 0:51:50.840 --> 0:51:54.239 says this will be charged, you know, in the next 0:51:54.560 --> 0:52:00.200 week unless you call this number. And so we call 0:52:00.280 --> 0:52:02.319 this number. I'm actually looking at one right now. Okay. 0:52:02.320 --> 0:52:05.640 It says geek Squad protect your tech, It's time for 0:52:05.760 --> 0:52:09.839 renewal order ID product, geek Squad five year personal home 0:52:09.920 --> 0:52:12.560 membership customer information. It has all your data on there, 0:52:12.600 --> 0:52:15.160 including your name and your email address, and it says 0:52:15.200 --> 0:52:17.839 we're ready to help whenever you need us, call us 0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:21.440 at this phone number. And so what's happening is they 0:52:21.560 --> 0:52:24.480 want you to see this email and say, wait a second, 0:52:24.560 --> 0:52:27.760 I didn't subscribe to geek Squad, and you call that number, 0:52:27.880 --> 0:52:31.960 and that's when the actual scam takes place, because you 0:52:32.120 --> 0:52:35.080 think that you're confirming your credit card number or getting 0:52:35.120 --> 0:52:39.279 this charge reversed, and they're actually collecting that information from you. 0:52:39.360 --> 0:52:41.680 This has nothing to do with the geek Squad. They're 0:52:41.760 --> 0:52:44.560 just using the geek Squad's good name to get your 0:52:44.640 --> 0:52:48.520 information and to try to charge you. So, Melody, I 0:52:48.640 --> 0:52:50.399 know this is happening to you, and you're getting these 0:52:50.600 --> 0:52:53.279 letters in the mail and these emails, and you know 0:52:53.360 --> 0:52:55.680 could even be a phone call. But the best thing 0:52:55.719 --> 0:52:58.359 you can do is, like you said, monitor your credit 0:52:58.440 --> 0:53:01.480 card for any real charges that may come about, which 0:53:01.560 --> 0:53:04.839 there's probably not going to be any, and just keep 0:53:05.000 --> 0:53:08.719 deleting these emails, don't don't unsubscribe to them, don't call 0:53:08.760 --> 0:53:11.680 the phone number that's inside these emails. This is something 0:53:11.719 --> 0:53:14.200 that I'm seeing on a daily basis. I'm getting these 0:53:14.239 --> 0:53:17.080 emails and so it's coming. Like I said, the Geek 0:53:17.120 --> 0:53:20.080 Squad and Norton are two of the biggest because those 0:53:20.120 --> 0:53:22.239 are two of the biggest brand names out there. So 0:53:22.400 --> 0:53:25.120 that's what's happening, Melody, you could safely ignore them. I'm 0:53:25.120 --> 0:53:27.800 glad you brought it up so that people can't avoid this. 0:53:28.040 --> 0:53:30.560 Thanks so much for the call today. Triple eight Rich 0:53:30.640 --> 0:53:33.359 one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:53:33.840 --> 0:53:38.359 four one zero one. Mark is in one NETCA, California. 0:53:38.480 --> 0:53:42.360 Mark you're on with Rich Well, good definite answer. I 0:53:42.520 --> 0:53:45.600 generally speaking, I'm always researching and looking at different things, 0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:48.080 and I may go to a website I don't have 0:53:48.200 --> 0:53:50.879 time to look at at that point of time. Sure, 0:53:50.920 --> 0:53:53.680 so I'll drag down one of the euros to the desktop. 0:53:53.719 --> 0:53:55.800 I have so many things on my desktop here, but 0:53:55.960 --> 0:53:59.520 I pulled down a couple of articles or stories from 0:54:00.200 --> 0:54:03.920 Quitter months ago, and I pulled it down to the 0:54:04.120 --> 0:54:05.880 desktop so I could go back to it later. And 0:54:06.000 --> 0:54:07.920 now I can't get rid of them. They won't delete. 0:54:08.000 --> 0:54:10.360 They won't even move off of the position that they're in. 0:54:11.880 --> 0:54:13.400 I might be able to move around a little bit, 0:54:13.440 --> 0:54:16.239 but it will not delete. It will not allow me 0:54:16.400 --> 0:54:20.719 to watch it and then get rid of it. And 0:54:21.520 --> 0:54:24.799 it's bad enough with YouTube not let me on talking 0:54:24.800 --> 0:54:27.759 about malware bites. They won't even allow mailware bites. So 0:54:27.880 --> 0:54:30.880 I'm kind of at a what kind of computer is 0:54:30.920 --> 0:54:33.960 this laptop? That's you know, Windows? 0:54:34.080 --> 0:54:38.040 Okay, so Windows, So on a Windows computer, the best 0:54:38.080 --> 0:54:40.799 way to delete these things, obviously, you can drag them 0:54:40.840 --> 0:54:42.680 to the trash can. If it's a you know, if 0:54:42.680 --> 0:54:46.040 it's a quick shortcut to a URL or any icon 0:54:46.120 --> 0:54:49.040 that's on your desktop. The main ways to delete these 0:54:49.080 --> 0:54:51.680 things are to drag them to the trash so you 0:54:51.719 --> 0:54:53.160 can just pick one up and drag it to the 0:54:53.239 --> 0:54:56.080 trash and of course I assume you've tried to do that, 0:54:56.280 --> 0:54:58.880 because you're saying that this is not working. So the 0:54:59.000 --> 0:55:01.680 second way to try to get rid of these URLs 0:55:01.719 --> 0:55:04.760 on your desktop is to select one and then press 0:55:05.040 --> 0:55:08.120 shift and the delete key at the same time. So 0:55:08.320 --> 0:55:11.480 shift and delete to get rid of this. And it 0:55:11.560 --> 0:55:13.239 says I'm trying this right now. It says, are you 0:55:13.360 --> 0:55:15.640 sure you want to permanently delete this item? I press yes, 0:55:16.160 --> 0:55:19.200 and my computer is saying access denied. And so this 0:55:19.440 --> 0:55:21.920 may be what you're coming up against. You may need 0:55:22.040 --> 0:55:25.560 to log in as an administrator to do this because 0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:29.200 sometimes it does try to protect you from certain operations 0:55:29.239 --> 0:55:34.279 on your computer that could have negative effects. Welcome back 0:55:34.360 --> 0:55:37.080 to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, 0:55:37.320 --> 0:55:42.320 talking technology. Welcoming back to the show. Jen Calltrider with 0:55:42.520 --> 0:55:47.520 the Mozilla Foundation, lead researcher at Privacy Not Included. Jen, 0:55:47.600 --> 0:55:48.839 thanks so much for joining me again. 0:55:49.800 --> 0:55:51.040 Yeah, thanks for having me back. 0:55:52.400 --> 0:55:55.800 So you've got a new report out a nightmare before Christmas. 0:55:56.160 --> 0:55:59.600 Mozilla researchers find many popular tech gifts perform worse on 0:55:59.719 --> 0:56:04.360 privacy than ever before. Explain to me what the Privacy 0:56:04.520 --> 0:56:06.920 Not Included Guide is all about. 0:56:08.200 --> 0:56:11.239 Yeah, we review the privacy and security out of all 0:56:11.280 --> 0:56:14.719 those fun connected gadgets that you're shopping for at the holidays. 0:56:14.760 --> 0:56:18.080 We've been doing that since twenty seventeen, and we try 0:56:18.120 --> 0:56:20.719 and help people with our fun reviews at Privacy Not 0:56:20.800 --> 0:56:23.839 Included dot Org know which smart watch is better at 0:56:23.880 --> 0:56:27.800 protecting your privacy than another, which smart speaker, which fitness 0:56:27.880 --> 0:56:30.360 equipment or or that the like of the like. So 0:56:30.560 --> 0:56:33.320 just you know, we try and make help you smart 0:56:33.360 --> 0:56:35.400 shops smart for connected devices. 0:56:37.040 --> 0:56:40.040 What are some specific examples of popular tech gifts that 0:56:40.160 --> 0:56:43.719 have not done so well on your Buyer's Guide this year? 0:56:44.920 --> 0:56:50.200 Oh gosh, Amazon products, they just keep disappointing us. You know, 0:56:50.320 --> 0:56:53.680 the Amazon has a bunch of products. They're smart speakers, 0:56:53.840 --> 0:56:58.480 they're tablets for kids, their kindles, things like that, and 0:56:58.680 --> 0:57:01.239 you know, Amazon just they're track record just keeps getting 0:57:01.320 --> 0:57:04.719 worse and worse at protecting privacy. They collect a ton 0:57:04.800 --> 0:57:07.360 of data, they use that data to make money, and 0:57:07.920 --> 0:57:10.520 they just keep getting in trouble with the FTC and 0:57:10.640 --> 0:57:13.759 the like for not respecting our privacy with all that 0:57:13.840 --> 0:57:17.720 data they collect. So they're they're pretty bad. We saw 0:57:18.000 --> 0:57:21.400 Xbox this year gets our privacy not included ding. They 0:57:21.480 --> 0:57:25.000 got fined big by the FTC this year because they 0:57:25.160 --> 0:57:28.560 violated the children's privacy laws and that's that's not good. 0:57:28.600 --> 0:57:32.160 And then we see, you know, the standards, the usuals 0:57:32.240 --> 0:57:35.920 that that that aren't great. You've got some kids toys 0:57:35.960 --> 0:57:38.720 on there that raise eyebrows. Smart watches for kids are 0:57:39.120 --> 0:57:43.880 something that we especially looked at and have some concerns with. Yeah, 0:57:44.000 --> 0:57:46.560 so lots of products that raise eyebrows, but there are 0:57:46.600 --> 0:57:47.240 a few good ones. 0:57:47.480 --> 0:57:49.080 Okay, before we get to the good ones, I'm just 0:57:49.120 --> 0:57:52.240 curious because I'm hearing a lot more about connected children's 0:57:52.280 --> 0:57:55.600 toys and the personal data that they collect. What is 0:57:55.640 --> 0:57:58.160 the implication of this, Like, you know, these things have 0:57:58.320 --> 0:58:03.200 microphones on them and speakers and internet connections and cameras. 0:58:03.560 --> 0:58:05.280 What does that all mean for kids and parents? 0:58:06.120 --> 0:58:08.640 It means that parents need to really pay attention when 0:58:08.680 --> 0:58:12.240 they buy their kids a connected toy or a connected 0:58:12.280 --> 0:58:16.120 smartwatch or any connected device. It's no fun to read 0:58:16.160 --> 0:58:18.160 privacy policies. I can say that because I do it 0:58:18.280 --> 0:58:20.600 for a living, and I don't wish it on anybody, 0:58:20.680 --> 0:58:23.200 because they're confusing. There's a million of them. Out there. 0:58:23.240 --> 0:58:26.000 It's really hard to understand, Okay, what data is being 0:58:26.080 --> 0:58:27.960 collected on me as a parent through the app that 0:58:28.080 --> 0:58:30.720 I have to download the control device, versus what data 0:58:30.760 --> 0:58:33.240 is being collected on my kid. You know, did I 0:58:33.400 --> 0:58:37.600 consent to have that data being used for personalization or advertising? 0:58:38.560 --> 0:58:38.720 You know? 0:58:38.800 --> 0:58:41.040 How do I delete it if I want to? And 0:58:41.200 --> 0:58:43.640 so those are all big concerns that it makes it 0:58:43.760 --> 0:58:46.400 difficult for parents to really kind of understand and know 0:58:46.960 --> 0:58:49.600 what's best. And then there's some really creepy products that 0:58:49.680 --> 0:58:52.840 we came across this year. I mentioned smart watches for kids. 0:58:52.920 --> 0:58:56.800 We came across two different smart watches for kids. One 0:58:57.040 --> 0:58:59.400 just flat out didn't have a privacy policy for the 0:58:59.480 --> 0:59:05.120 device the app that the collects your GPS location as cameras, microphones, sensors, 0:59:06.040 --> 0:59:08.760 and the other one had a barely a privacy policy 0:59:08.800 --> 0:59:11.560 that super vague buried in the terms and conditions. And 0:59:11.920 --> 0:59:14.120 you know, a privy policy is what a company uses 0:59:14.200 --> 0:59:15.840 to say how they're going to collect your data, how 0:59:15.840 --> 0:59:17.800 they're going to use it, what controls you have over it. 0:59:17.840 --> 0:59:20.640 And the fact that we're finding devices that are so 0:59:20.920 --> 0:59:25.160 invasive they're basically surveillance devices that don't have privacy policies 0:59:25.200 --> 0:59:28.280 at all, shows that these companies are sketchy at best 0:59:28.400 --> 0:59:30.959 and potentially really dangerous at worst. 0:59:31.400 --> 0:59:34.080 How does a parent know if something is going to 0:59:34.160 --> 0:59:36.600 have a bad rap? They just look at your website. 0:59:38.040 --> 0:59:41.360 We try and help. That's a good place to start. 0:59:42.160 --> 0:59:44.520 It is hard to know. I mean, I think asking 0:59:44.600 --> 0:59:46.800 yourself as a parent, you know what level of data 0:59:46.920 --> 0:59:49.440 collection am I okay with on my child? You know, 0:59:49.640 --> 0:59:52.960 the Moxie robot that we review doesn't actually earn our 0:59:53.000 --> 0:59:55.680 privacy not included warning label, but we were very close. 0:59:56.000 --> 0:59:57.880 We were very on the fence about giving it that 0:59:58.000 --> 1:00:01.640 because their privacy policy sounds okay, but at the same time, 1:00:01.680 --> 1:00:05.560 they're sharing so incredibly much data. There's video, there's cameras. 1:00:06.200 --> 1:00:09.400 It's marketed as a toy for your kids to help 1:00:09.440 --> 1:00:13.600 them learn emotional intelligence and build relationships. But buried in 1:00:13.680 --> 1:00:16.360 the privacy policy they say, oh, teach your kids never 1:00:16.480 --> 1:00:19.960 to share personal information, and those things seem contradictory. And 1:00:20.080 --> 1:00:21.960 so that's the kind of stuff that we see that 1:00:22.040 --> 1:00:24.520 we would like parents to be wario. You know, there's 1:00:24.560 --> 1:00:27.080 some good products out there, you know, the Tamagatchi Uni 1:00:27.400 --> 1:00:32.280 or the Doggie that are still kind of fun interactive toys. 1:00:32.440 --> 1:00:35.680 There's some coding kids that are fun interactive toys that 1:00:36.120 --> 1:00:38.800 just don't collect a lot of personal information. And that's 1:00:38.800 --> 1:00:40.360 the way I would go if I were a parent. 1:00:40.840 --> 1:00:44.720 And they had some previously top or positively rated companies 1:00:44.800 --> 1:00:48.280 like Sono's and Bows and Ufi, but this year they 1:00:48.360 --> 1:00:50.120 didn't do so well. So what changed? 1:00:50.720 --> 1:00:54.160 Yeah, it's interesting to see companies just getting more and 1:00:54.320 --> 1:00:57.120 more into the game of collecting data and then trying 1:00:57.160 --> 1:00:59.880 to make money off of it, you know, both is 1:01:00.040 --> 1:01:02.560 an interesting one. You know, Boss makes headphones, that's what 1:01:02.680 --> 1:01:05.440 they do. They make headphones and speakers, and you know, 1:01:05.960 --> 1:01:08.760 reading through Boss privacy policy this year, we found the 1:01:08.840 --> 1:01:10.959 line in there that says that they can collect data 1:01:11.400 --> 1:01:15.040 on your head movements based on your your headphones. You're like, 1:01:15.600 --> 1:01:17.520 why does those need to collect that data? But then 1:01:17.520 --> 1:01:19.960 they go on and say that they could possibly sell 1:01:20.040 --> 1:01:24.240 that data linked to potentially your email, and again it's like, 1:01:24.840 --> 1:01:27.760 why do my headphones need to do that? They didn't 1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:30.680 do that a few years ago, and now they're doing that, 1:01:30.800 --> 1:01:34.120 And that's just kind of the slow creep of more technology, 1:01:34.240 --> 1:01:37.720 more sensors, more data being collected from all our connected stuff, 1:01:37.800 --> 1:01:41.200 even our headphones, and then it's how can we make 1:01:41.280 --> 1:01:43.400 money off that? How can we you know, sell that 1:01:43.600 --> 1:01:46.600 or share that for advertising or more. And so that's 1:01:46.640 --> 1:01:48.680 what worries is we're seeing more and more of that 1:01:49.000 --> 1:01:51.880 from companies that used to actually be pretty good. The 1:01:52.000 --> 1:01:54.640 other thing that we're seeing that that's worrisome is some 1:01:54.800 --> 1:01:58.040 of the good guys fit Bit and i Robot. I 1:01:58.200 --> 1:02:00.480 Robot's been one of the best companies we've reviewed for 1:02:00.560 --> 1:02:02.400 privacy for a long time. They were on our best 1:02:02.520 --> 1:02:05.480 ult list. They're in the process of being bought by Amazon, 1:02:05.880 --> 1:02:08.960 and so you have a company that's good at privacy 1:02:09.040 --> 1:02:11.160 being bought by a company that's not good at privacy. 1:02:11.240 --> 1:02:13.920 And your data is a business asset that will transfer, 1:02:14.040 --> 1:02:16.880 and so that's a concern that got bought up by 1:02:16.960 --> 1:02:18.720 Google a couple of years ago, and you're seeing that 1:02:18.840 --> 1:02:21.760 marriage get closer and closer where you know now you'll 1:02:21.920 --> 1:02:24.160 need a Google account to sign up for a new 1:02:24.200 --> 1:02:27.320 fit that income, and you know that means your data 1:02:27.360 --> 1:02:31.080 is going to start going to Google, and Google likes data. 1:02:31.920 --> 1:02:35.800 So what steps are you taking to ensure that consumers 1:02:35.840 --> 1:02:38.360 are protected raise awareness about all of this. 1:02:39.080 --> 1:02:42.320 Well, I'm talking to you, Rich, I'm relying on people 1:02:42.480 --> 1:02:44.080 like you to try and help get the word out 1:02:44.120 --> 1:02:46.960 because people know you, they trust you, and you know, 1:02:47.400 --> 1:02:49.200 I just sit here and do the research and I 1:02:49.320 --> 1:02:51.120 rely on people like you, and I'm grateful for people 1:02:51.200 --> 1:02:52.760 like you to help get the word out because it 1:02:52.880 --> 1:02:55.160 is hard, you know. Like I said, I don't expect 1:02:55.200 --> 1:02:58.800 parents to read privacy policies. They're incomprehensible. But I do 1:02:59.360 --> 1:03:02.160 like the ceepeople ask questions and say, oh, I've heard 1:03:02.200 --> 1:03:04.160 bad things. Maybe I'll just take a peek at this 1:03:04.240 --> 1:03:08.320 privacy policy. They aren't completely horrible. You can determine what 1:03:09.000 --> 1:03:11.760 data is being collected. You can do a search for 1:03:11.880 --> 1:03:14.040 the word sell and see if your data is going 1:03:14.120 --> 1:03:17.680 to be sold. Things like that. But really, I just 1:03:17.760 --> 1:03:20.880 think sitting down and having a risk asseetment prossessment. I 1:03:20.960 --> 1:03:23.440 have good products, you know, I have an Amazon Kindle. 1:03:23.560 --> 1:03:25.840 You know, I'll bash Amazon for being bad at privacy, 1:03:25.880 --> 1:03:28.480 which they are, But do I really care if Amazon 1:03:28.560 --> 1:03:30.520 knows what books I read? I can live with that. 1:03:30.760 --> 1:03:33.040 This really all comes down to money. I mean, that's 1:03:33.120 --> 1:03:35.720 really what it comes down to. Work exchanging our data 1:03:37.040 --> 1:03:39.800 for product, and they are exchanging the data that we 1:03:39.920 --> 1:03:42.840 give them for some sort of sale, whether you know, 1:03:43.000 --> 1:03:45.720 even with Amazon your books, they want to recommend you 1:03:45.880 --> 1:03:48.520 other books that you might purchase from them. In the 1:03:48.600 --> 1:03:51.080 case of some of these things, it's a little more nuanced, 1:03:51.200 --> 1:03:54.040 like the head tracking stuff. Why but it's probably to 1:03:54.160 --> 1:03:57.000 develop better products that they can then make money off of. 1:03:57.160 --> 1:03:58.880 So does it really all just come down to money? 1:04:00.120 --> 1:04:02.440 It comes down to money. I mean, at the end 1:04:02.440 --> 1:04:03.959 of the day. What doesn't come down to money? 1:04:04.040 --> 1:04:05.080 Though? Right? Uh? 1:04:05.520 --> 1:04:08.439 But I also think you know, we're not The question 1:04:08.560 --> 1:04:10.520 of consent is when I think a lot about is 1:04:10.560 --> 1:04:12.960 a privacy researcher, and a lot of companies will say 1:04:12.960 --> 1:04:15.720 we'll never open do this without your data, we'll never 1:04:15.800 --> 1:04:17.600 share it, we'll not set up, never do anything with 1:04:17.640 --> 1:04:19.960 it without your consent. But then you ask, point, when 1:04:20.040 --> 1:04:22.600 did I consent to this? And that gets very nerky, 1:04:22.760 --> 1:04:25.440 and so yes, it all comes down to money, and 1:04:25.960 --> 1:04:29.520 what people should really be asking is do I consent 1:04:29.640 --> 1:04:31.320 to this? When did I consent to this? And how 1:04:31.360 --> 1:04:33.400 do I revoke my consent to this? Can I get 1:04:33.440 --> 1:04:36.880 my data deleted? Because they're going to keep doing it, 1:04:37.000 --> 1:04:41.000 that's not going to change, And unfortunately the onus is 1:04:41.080 --> 1:04:43.840 on us to protect ourselves. So it should be we 1:04:43.960 --> 1:04:47.120 need stronger federal privacy laws. We don't have federal privacy 1:04:47.200 --> 1:04:49.600 laws here in the country. I mean, we have child 1:04:49.680 --> 1:04:52.120 one and a healthcare and we don't have a consumer 1:04:52.680 --> 1:04:55.000 and we need that and people should start demanding. 1:04:55.320 --> 1:04:57.480 Ten call triter. Thanks so much for joining me. What's 1:04:57.520 --> 1:04:58.440 the website to go to? 1:04:59.040 --> 1:05:00.280 It's privacy. 1:05:01.800 --> 1:05:04.040 All right, take that list and check it twice. Thanks 1:05:04.040 --> 1:05:05.920 so much for joining me today. More rich on Tech 1:05:05.960 --> 1:05:12.360 coming your way right after this. What's going on? Welcome 1:05:12.480 --> 1:05:15.400 back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out 1:05:15.440 --> 1:05:18.760 with you talking technology. Hope you're having a fantastic day. 1:05:19.320 --> 1:05:22.200 Phone lines are open at triple eight rich one oh 1:05:22.280 --> 1:05:26.080 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:05:26.320 --> 1:05:29.120 zero one is the phone number. It's a fun new game, 1:05:29.320 --> 1:05:33.040 Super Mario Brothers Wonder So let me tell you about 1:05:33.040 --> 1:05:36.920 this Nintendo game. This is the first two D side 1:05:36.960 --> 1:05:40.680 scrolling Mario Brothers game in over ten years. This launched 1:05:40.680 --> 1:05:43.360 for the Nintendo Switch. Mentioned it on the show last weekend, 1:05:43.400 --> 1:05:45.200 but I hadn't had a chance to play it just yet, 1:05:46.000 --> 1:05:47.600 and boy, when I got a chance to play it, 1:05:47.760 --> 1:05:50.440 it was fun. My nine year old and I were 1:05:50.480 --> 1:05:53.040 fighting over who got to play it next, because it 1:05:53.160 --> 1:05:54.720 was just It's one of those games that you just 1:05:54.800 --> 1:05:58.160 pick up and there's almost no learning curve, right, you 1:05:58.320 --> 1:06:01.400 just know how to play instinctive. So if you played 1:06:01.440 --> 1:06:03.640 the original Mario Brothers, or if you're looking for a 1:06:03.720 --> 1:06:07.280 gift this holiday season, or no matter what you're celebrating, 1:06:07.640 --> 1:06:09.400 people are going to be getting this as a gift. 1:06:09.800 --> 1:06:11.480 The kids are going to start playing it, and the 1:06:11.560 --> 1:06:13.240 parents or the adults are going to, wait a second, 1:06:13.280 --> 1:06:15.439 I want to play that because it just looks fun 1:06:15.520 --> 1:06:17.480 and it looks easy. I don't know if you've tried 1:06:17.480 --> 1:06:19.240 to play one of these video games these days, but 1:06:19.320 --> 1:06:23.280 you know there's like fifteen different controller settings, fifteen different 1:06:23.320 --> 1:06:25.720 buttons on that thing. And it's not for the faint 1:06:25.760 --> 1:06:27.360 of heart. Like you need to know how to play 1:06:27.440 --> 1:06:30.080 video games for most of today's games, this one you 1:06:30.200 --> 1:06:33.640 do not. It's got fun power ups like elephant fruit, 1:06:33.680 --> 1:06:36.280 which turns Mario into an elephant with like a horn 1:06:36.520 --> 1:06:39.080 or what do they call it, not a horn, elephant nose, 1:06:39.160 --> 1:06:42.040 like a long elephant nose, a trunk, Thank you, Bobo. 1:06:43.000 --> 1:06:45.680 Then they've got these wonder flowers that trigger effects. Now 1:06:45.720 --> 1:06:49.640 I don't know what these designers over in Japan. We're 1:06:50.400 --> 1:06:53.240 enjoying while they made this game. But those wonderflowers are 1:06:53.240 --> 1:06:55.640 a little you know. I guess all video games are 1:06:55.720 --> 1:06:58.320 kind of weird like that, right. There's up to four 1:06:58.360 --> 1:07:02.560 players locally and twelve players online, so that's kind of fun. 1:07:02.880 --> 1:07:06.920 The game is sixty dollars and this is gosh. It's 1:07:06.960 --> 1:07:09.919 been thirty years since the launch of the original Super 1:07:10.000 --> 1:07:13.440 Mario Brothers game on nes want to date yourself, There 1:07:13.520 --> 1:07:17.280 you go, thirty years. So again, Super Mario Brothers. Wonder. 1:07:17.400 --> 1:07:19.560 If you're looking for a gift this holiday season, I'm 1:07:19.600 --> 1:07:22.360 telling you this is the one to get. Kids will 1:07:22.400 --> 1:07:24.520 love it, adults will love it, and I think you're 1:07:24.520 --> 1:07:26.720 gonna have fun playing this game, so I am, that's 1:07:26.800 --> 1:07:29.240 for sure. Mike wrote in on the website. I have 1:07:29.320 --> 1:07:32.360 a set of bows Q forty five quiet comfort noise 1:07:32.440 --> 1:07:36.560 canceling headphones. I'm having connectivity issues with my Samsung S 1:07:36.720 --> 1:07:40.800 ten smartphone. I'm trying to connect with Bluetooth. Sometimes it works, 1:07:40.880 --> 1:07:43.960 sometimes it does not. On my phone. All my echo 1:07:44.040 --> 1:07:46.080 dots show up in the list, even my TV, but 1:07:46.160 --> 1:07:49.320 not my headphones. Last night it played somehow, even though 1:07:49.360 --> 1:07:52.440 it never came up in the list. Out of curiosity, 1:07:52.520 --> 1:07:54.320 I closed all the apps and it was still playing 1:07:54.400 --> 1:07:59.000 help me please in bold letters, Mike, I think you 1:07:59.120 --> 1:08:02.480 need to do what's called a network settings reset on 1:08:02.600 --> 1:08:06.640 this Samsung Galaxy S ten smartphone. It's an older phone, 1:08:07.120 --> 1:08:09.920 so you've probably connected things over the years to it 1:08:10.200 --> 1:08:12.920 and something just doesn't seem to be playing right. So 1:08:13.120 --> 1:08:17.639 what I'd recommend is doing what's called a network settings reset. 1:08:17.680 --> 1:08:19.920 So you want to go into your Samsung phone, you 1:08:20.000 --> 1:08:22.840 want to go into your settings. You swipe down from 1:08:22.880 --> 1:08:25.040 the top. There's a little gear icon in the upper 1:08:25.120 --> 1:08:28.160 right hand corner. You tap that and then you'll be 1:08:28.240 --> 1:08:30.479 into your settings. Now, you scroll all the way down 1:08:30.680 --> 1:08:34.720 until it says general Management, and then you scroll all 1:08:34.760 --> 1:08:37.479 the way down again until it says reset. Now. I 1:08:37.560 --> 1:08:39.759 know it's scary because it says reset, so you probably 1:08:39.840 --> 1:08:42.879 didn't want to click that. But you can tap reset 1:08:42.960 --> 1:08:46.160 and then you get a bunch of reset options. Or 1:08:46.280 --> 1:08:50.040 you can do reset network settings and that will reset 1:08:50.120 --> 1:08:53.040 the Wi Fi, the mobile data, and the Bluetooth. That's 1:08:53.080 --> 1:08:55.280 the one I think you should tap. And so once 1:08:55.320 --> 1:08:58.200 you tap that, it will clear out all the Bluetooth devices, 1:08:58.320 --> 1:09:00.640 all the Wi Fi devices, all the connect devices on 1:09:00.680 --> 1:09:03.439 that phone. Then I would go in and I would 1:09:03.479 --> 1:09:06.960 repair the bow's headphones, and I think your connectivity issues 1:09:07.000 --> 1:09:12.880 will hopefully be solved. Mary Jane in Fallbrook, California. You're 1:09:12.920 --> 1:09:14.840 on with rich Oh, thank. 1:09:14.760 --> 1:09:18.120 You so much for taking my call. I have an 1:09:18.160 --> 1:09:23.920 old Apple six. It wasn't holding I loved it. It 1:09:24.080 --> 1:09:27.040 wasn't holding a charge anymore. So I went to your 1:09:27.120 --> 1:09:30.400 sponsor and I bought a new phone. And why the 1:09:30.560 --> 1:09:34.599 gentleman was transferring the information from one phone to the other. 1:09:35.240 --> 1:09:38.320 He says, what's your security code number? I don't know 1:09:38.400 --> 1:09:42.479 what he was talking about, don't. I went through some papers. 1:09:42.560 --> 1:09:45.559 I don't see anything in regard to that. I wondered, 1:09:46.280 --> 1:09:50.320 what do I do now? Both phones are inoperable and 1:09:51.000 --> 1:09:56.640 I don't know what security code it's not. Well, I'm confused. 1:09:56.760 --> 1:09:57.800 I just don't know what to do. 1:09:58.360 --> 1:10:01.400 Okay, So explain to me. You have an iPhone six, 1:10:01.920 --> 1:10:03.879 that's your phone. Are they both in your possession? 1:10:04.600 --> 1:10:04.800 Yes? 1:10:05.120 --> 1:10:07.640 Okay, And you have a new iPhone. What did you 1:10:07.680 --> 1:10:08.559 get a new iPhone? 1:10:08.960 --> 1:10:09.120 Yeah? 1:10:09.200 --> 1:10:12.840 I just got a fifty. I got a new iPhone yet. 1:10:12.840 --> 1:10:13.400 A fifteen. 1:10:14.479 --> 1:10:16.000 I think they called it A fifty. 1:10:16.520 --> 1:10:19.599 Okay, uh, well the newest is the fifteen. Is the fifteen? 1:10:19.680 --> 1:10:20.639 So is it an iPhone? 1:10:21.439 --> 1:10:21.639 Yeah? 1:10:21.720 --> 1:10:24.519 Okay, great, all right, So I think what you're referring 1:10:24.560 --> 1:10:29.760 to a security code on your phone. So iPhone is 1:10:29.880 --> 1:10:32.040 very easy to you're trying to transfer all your data 1:10:32.080 --> 1:10:33.120 from the old phone to the new one. 1:10:33.800 --> 1:10:38.800 Well that's twenty pros. So that wasn't completed and I'm 1:10:38.840 --> 1:10:39.679 out two phones. 1:10:39.800 --> 1:10:42.200 Okay, do you have both phones in your possession? 1:10:42.760 --> 1:10:42.920 Yes? 1:10:43.040 --> 1:10:45.839 Okay, great, So what you want to do. The security 1:10:45.920 --> 1:10:49.280 code that is I believe is being referred to is 1:10:49.360 --> 1:10:52.599 your pin code, so you know how you code, Yes, 1:10:52.720 --> 1:10:54.880 the code that you use to unlock your old phone. 1:10:55.240 --> 1:10:57.879 When you go through the setup process on the iPhone 1:10:57.960 --> 1:11:01.360 to transfer your data for security reasons, it asks you 1:11:01.640 --> 1:11:04.479 what the pin code is on your old phone, and 1:11:04.640 --> 1:11:07.320 so you type that in and that enables the phone 1:11:07.400 --> 1:11:10.880 to decode your encrypted information off the old device. And 1:11:11.000 --> 1:11:13.680 so that's what I believe is happening here. That is 1:11:13.720 --> 1:11:16.080 the code. So whatever you type in and don't say 1:11:16.080 --> 1:11:18.400 it on air, but whatever you type in on your 1:11:18.479 --> 1:11:22.439 old phone, that's what you do. That's the code that 1:11:22.520 --> 1:11:24.519 you put in on the new phone. So typically throughout 1:11:24.520 --> 1:11:27.439 the little process of transferring all the data, it will say, 1:11:28.080 --> 1:11:30.920 please enter the security code or the pin code from 1:11:30.960 --> 1:11:34.479 your previous device, and so that's the code that you 1:11:34.600 --> 1:11:37.719 type in, and that will help the new phone gather 1:11:37.880 --> 1:11:40.760 the old data. So that's what I believe you could do. So, 1:11:41.240 --> 1:11:43.240 Mary Jean, thanks so much for calling today. I hope 1:11:43.280 --> 1:11:46.360 that that helps you figure it out. Let's go to 1:11:46.600 --> 1:11:49.519 John in more Park, California. John, you're on with Rich. 1:11:50.760 --> 1:11:52.080 I have a question. 1:11:52.560 --> 1:11:53.599 I have a friend of mine. 1:11:53.680 --> 1:11:55.200 He only has one thing. 1:11:55.280 --> 1:11:56.200 He has an iPhone. 1:11:56.640 --> 1:11:59.480 But I was going to ask your advice on passboard managers. 1:12:00.400 --> 1:12:03.240 Good question, password manager. I was just talking about this 1:12:03.400 --> 1:12:06.799 yesterday with a friend. So if he just has an iPhone, 1:12:07.320 --> 1:12:10.920 I think the easiest, simplest password manager is built right 1:12:10.960 --> 1:12:14.800 into the iPhone. It's called iCloud keychain, and if he's 1:12:14.880 --> 1:12:18.680 using the iPhone, iCloud keychain will generate strong passwords. If 1:12:18.680 --> 1:12:21.600 you're using an iPhone, you've probably seen this pop up 1:12:21.640 --> 1:12:23.880 on your phone where it says it literally puts like 1:12:23.960 --> 1:12:27.200 an email or a password in the box, like it's 1:12:27.240 --> 1:12:29.120 like this long character and you just have to tap 1:12:29.200 --> 1:12:32.759 to accept it. But iCloud keychain. If he's already using iPhone, 1:12:32.840 --> 1:12:34.280 I think is going to be the simplest way to 1:12:34.360 --> 1:12:37.000 do it. Now, when you're using more devices than just 1:12:37.080 --> 1:12:39.120 the iPhone, I think it gets a little bit more complicated. 1:12:39.200 --> 1:12:44.040 Then I would recommend something like bitwarden, b it wr 1:12:44.560 --> 1:12:48.639 d n Bitwarden. And what bitwarden does is it will 1:12:48.720 --> 1:12:51.680 generate a password, but you have to set it all up. 1:12:51.760 --> 1:12:54.160 You need to create an account, you need to set 1:12:54.200 --> 1:12:55.880 it up and make sure that the iPhone knows that 1:12:55.960 --> 1:12:57.959 that's what you want to use to fill on the accounts. 1:12:58.640 --> 1:13:01.040 That's a good way to go. If you're a big 1:13:01.200 --> 1:13:05.639 Google user, a Google Chrome on the iPhone and Google 1:13:05.720 --> 1:13:09.439 Chrome on the desktop, I would check out Google password manager, 1:13:10.160 --> 1:13:12.240 so they have one built in. You can go to 1:13:12.360 --> 1:13:17.600 passwords dot Google dot com. And Google just recently upgraded 1:13:17.800 --> 1:13:20.799 this password manager so that works even better on the iPhone. 1:13:20.840 --> 1:13:23.280 It used to be kind of not so easy, but 1:13:23.439 --> 1:13:26.280 now it actually will fill in passwords across all devices 1:13:26.760 --> 1:13:29.760 on the iPhone. And by the way, to check out 1:13:29.960 --> 1:13:34.120 how you're using the password manager on your iPhone, you 1:13:34.200 --> 1:13:38.080 go to settings and let's see, you go to passwords 1:13:38.640 --> 1:13:41.120 and it's going to authorize you and then you can 1:13:41.200 --> 1:13:43.880 see all the passwords that your iPhone has selected and 1:13:44.080 --> 1:13:46.240 kept inside there. I've got a list of a couple 1:13:46.280 --> 1:13:49.320 of them. But then if you go into password options, 1:13:50.200 --> 1:13:55.519 now you can specify how you want to save and 1:13:55.720 --> 1:13:59.200 also fill passwords on the iPhone. But that's what you 1:13:59.280 --> 1:14:02.920 want to do is set up I personally always appreciate 1:14:03.080 --> 1:14:07.760 third party products for everything, but John in your friend's case, 1:14:07.800 --> 1:14:10.000 since he's just or they're just using an iPhone, I 1:14:10.040 --> 1:14:12.639 think the iCloud keychain is probably gonna be the easiest. 1:14:12.680 --> 1:14:15.839 But keep in mind it is linked to your iCloud account, 1:14:15.960 --> 1:14:18.080 so if you forget your iCloud password, or if you 1:14:18.160 --> 1:14:20.240 can't get into your iCloud account, we're gonna have a 1:14:20.280 --> 1:14:22.479 lot of problems with all the other passports be able 1:14:22.520 --> 1:14:26.080 to get into those either. Rich on Tech dot tv 1:14:26.560 --> 1:14:28.639 is the website. If you want to contact the show, 1:14:28.920 --> 1:14:31.240 send your email there eighty eight rich one O one 1:14:31.360 --> 1:14:33.599 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero. 1:14:33.680 --> 1:14:35.519 And we still got lots more of the show, lots 1:14:35.560 --> 1:14:38.400 more questions, lots more things to talk about. You're listening 1:14:38.479 --> 1:14:42.280 to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:14:42.439 --> 1:14:46.000 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology. Some 1:14:46.160 --> 1:14:49.160 of you have discovered on the website at richontech dot 1:14:49.320 --> 1:14:52.400 TV that there is a microphone icon. You click the 1:14:52.680 --> 1:14:54.920 icon and you can leave a voicemail for the show. 1:14:55.120 --> 1:14:57.760 So I figured in this segment we would check the voicemail, 1:14:58.080 --> 1:14:59.559 and let's start with David. 1:15:00.520 --> 1:15:00.680 Hey. 1:15:01.120 --> 1:15:03.559 Yeah, I was trying to find something on the new 1:15:03.800 --> 1:15:06.479 five G home Wi Fi. 1:15:07.040 --> 1:15:10.759 I'm trying to compare T Mobile, Verizon, and now AT 1:15:10.880 --> 1:15:12.479 and T is coming out with one, and I couldn't 1:15:12.520 --> 1:15:13.920 find anything on your site. 1:15:14.040 --> 1:15:15.840 And I know you do all this kind of stuff. 1:15:16.479 --> 1:15:17.760 Take care, keep up the good work. 1:15:18.200 --> 1:15:22.800 Great question. These new home internet services are provided through 1:15:22.960 --> 1:15:26.920 cellular versus a wired connection through something like your cable 1:15:26.960 --> 1:15:29.599 company or your phone company. So T Mobile has theirs, 1:15:29.640 --> 1:15:32.439 it's called T Mobile five G Home Internet, Verizon has 1:15:32.640 --> 1:15:35.720 Verizon five G Home Internet, and AT and T is 1:15:35.760 --> 1:15:37.600 the newest to offer it. They have AT and T 1:15:37.840 --> 1:15:39.960 Internet Air, which I think is the coolest name out 1:15:40.000 --> 1:15:42.600 of all of them. So again, if you have a 1:15:42.840 --> 1:15:46.400 strong cellular signal to your home, this might be a 1:15:46.520 --> 1:15:49.640 good alternative to a wired internet connection that you might 1:15:49.720 --> 1:15:52.400 get from, like I said, your cable company or your 1:15:52.479 --> 1:15:53.679 traditional phone company. 1:15:53.720 --> 1:15:53.840 Now. 1:15:53.880 --> 1:15:56.760 In some cases your phone company maybe Verizon, it may 1:15:56.800 --> 1:15:59.120 be AT, and T it may be T Mobile. So 1:15:59.240 --> 1:16:01.000 the main thing you need to do is check to 1:16:01.120 --> 1:16:03.920 see if these are available where you live. Have a 1:16:04.040 --> 1:16:07.240 friend come over with that signal on their smartphone. Use 1:16:07.280 --> 1:16:10.160 an app like Medior or speed test to test the 1:16:10.240 --> 1:16:12.760 signal up and down, see if it's strong, and then 1:16:12.800 --> 1:16:15.240 you can order this home internet. Maybe keep your old 1:16:15.320 --> 1:16:18.400 internet just in case there's a problem. Most of these 1:16:18.400 --> 1:16:20.960 systems are self installed. They send you a box, you 1:16:21.080 --> 1:16:23.400 plug it in near your window. It pulls in that 1:16:23.520 --> 1:16:26.240 cellular connection and then it spits it out as Wi 1:16:26.360 --> 1:16:29.960 Fi and then your devices would connect to that. So 1:16:30.080 --> 1:16:32.800 I think the connection through your wired internet is going 1:16:32.880 --> 1:16:35.880 to be faster, but I think the price is going 1:16:35.920 --> 1:16:39.439 to be better for this home internet situation. So you're 1:16:39.439 --> 1:16:41.679 going to get unlimited data from most of these companies. 1:16:41.960 --> 1:16:44.040 T Mobile right now is charging anywhere from thirty to 1:16:44.160 --> 1:16:47.600 fifty dollars, Verizon sixty to eighty dollars, AT and T 1:16:47.800 --> 1:16:52.880 fifty five dollars. Those prices do not include discounts for customers. Also, 1:16:53.000 --> 1:16:55.840 keep in mind if you're eligible for the Affordable Connectivity Program, 1:16:56.320 --> 1:17:00.000 these home internet services are eligible. That's a thirty dollars 1:17:00.160 --> 1:17:02.800 a month discount if you have something like Snap or 1:17:02.840 --> 1:17:06.360 you're on Medicaid. But like anything else, I predict the 1:17:06.479 --> 1:17:09.760 prices of these services will go up as more people 1:17:09.840 --> 1:17:11.960 get them. Right now, this is a very new thing. 1:17:12.000 --> 1:17:14.320 They've only been around for a couple of years now. 1:17:14.360 --> 1:17:16.800 I did have the chance to test out Verizons five 1:17:16.920 --> 1:17:19.559 G Home Internet and it was great. I tested out 1:17:19.600 --> 1:17:22.680 in various locations. The main thing is that if you 1:17:22.760 --> 1:17:26.360 have a good signal, you're gonna have a good Internet connection. Now, 1:17:26.400 --> 1:17:28.679 if you're doing a lot on your Internet at home, 1:17:28.840 --> 1:17:31.720 like if you're constantly exchanging large files, like if you're 1:17:31.720 --> 1:17:34.679 a video editor or something like that, I probably wouldn't 1:17:34.680 --> 1:17:37.040 recommend this. But if you're just doing typical day to 1:17:37.160 --> 1:17:40.559 day stuff like streaming Netflix and you know, doing your email, 1:17:40.640 --> 1:17:42.960 the stuff you typically do on your smartphone, if it 1:17:43.040 --> 1:17:45.360 works well on your smartphone, it's probably gonna work well 1:17:45.479 --> 1:17:47.200 on the five G home Internet. 1:17:47.760 --> 1:17:50.880 Next up, let's go to k I'm trying to figure 1:17:50.880 --> 1:17:55.200 out about Google Assistant interpret or mode. I've seen some 1:17:55.360 --> 1:17:59.600 demonstrations where you speak and then you can hand the 1:17:59.640 --> 1:18:01.439 phone to the other person and they will speak and 1:18:01.520 --> 1:18:05.400 you will hear both sides, but in my Google Assistant interpreter, 1:18:05.680 --> 1:18:07.760 I only get my side translated. 1:18:08.240 --> 1:18:10.600 Do you have anything like this you can help me with. 1:18:11.360 --> 1:18:13.960 What you're referring to is interpreter mode, and this is 1:18:14.040 --> 1:18:16.720 basically real time translation on your phone. This is the 1:18:16.800 --> 1:18:19.280 stuff that we saw in sci fi movies, but it 1:18:19.400 --> 1:18:23.479 is available if you have Google Assistant on Android or iOS. 1:18:23.560 --> 1:18:26.560 And this allows people to have back and forth conversations 1:18:26.920 --> 1:18:30.599 with each person speaking their own respective language, and Google 1:18:30.640 --> 1:18:34.000 will kind of be the in between and translate whatever 1:18:34.080 --> 1:18:36.320 you're saying. So, if you want to activate interpreter mode, 1:18:36.320 --> 1:18:38.040 there's a couple of ways you can do this. You 1:18:38.120 --> 1:18:41.960 can say, hey G, be my German translator, or hey G, 1:18:42.240 --> 1:18:45.880 help me speak Spanish. Replace the G with Google of course, 1:18:46.160 --> 1:18:48.800 and then that translated conversation will be displayed on the 1:18:48.880 --> 1:18:51.799 phone screen and also the device will speak it. Google 1:18:51.840 --> 1:18:55.599 supports forty four languages for this. Now, if you want 1:18:55.640 --> 1:18:57.960 to do another version of this, if you download the 1:18:58.040 --> 1:19:01.240 Google Translate app. Typically, when you use the app, you 1:19:01.280 --> 1:19:04.040 can just hit the big microphone icon and you can 1:19:04.160 --> 1:19:06.600 say something in your language and it will translate it 1:19:06.640 --> 1:19:09.679 into another language. But there's another icon in the lower 1:19:09.760 --> 1:19:13.519 left hand corner that says conversation And now if you 1:19:13.680 --> 1:19:16.599 put that on, it will listen to what you're saying 1:19:16.800 --> 1:19:20.040 and put your side of the conversation in your language, 1:19:20.160 --> 1:19:23.400 and then in real time translate that to the other side. 1:19:23.960 --> 1:19:27.040 And if you tap auto, this will make it so 1:19:27.160 --> 1:19:29.439 it's listening for both languages. So when you speak in 1:19:29.520 --> 1:19:32.439 your language, it will translate it to the other language, 1:19:32.520 --> 1:19:35.439 and when they speak in their language, it will translate 1:19:35.520 --> 1:19:38.120 it to your language. By the way, Apple has a 1:19:38.320 --> 1:19:40.360 translate app as well, so if you don't want to 1:19:40.400 --> 1:19:42.960 download a new app on the iPhone, you can just 1:19:43.040 --> 1:19:46.479 search for the translate app and it has similar features. 1:19:46.800 --> 1:19:48.400 All right, Next up, let's go to Jim. 1:19:49.040 --> 1:19:52.439 Hey Rich, this is Jim from Prescott Valley. For years 1:19:52.479 --> 1:19:56.160 I've uploaded pictures to Costco to make Christmas cards, and 1:19:56.479 --> 1:19:59.800 this year they just continue that service. I was wondering 1:19:59.800 --> 1:20:01.920 if you you had any suggestions on another place to 1:20:02.280 --> 1:20:05.360 upload and create cards. Thanks and great job with the 1:20:05.439 --> 1:20:07.040 podcast and the radio show. 1:20:07.760 --> 1:20:10.280 Ah. Yes, it is that time of year again when 1:20:10.360 --> 1:20:13.800 we need to order our holiday cards. So I think 1:20:13.880 --> 1:20:16.840 this is largely a question of how much you want 1:20:16.880 --> 1:20:19.880 to spend, the convenience and how much time you want 1:20:19.920 --> 1:20:21.360 to put into them. But I'll tell you the company 1:20:21.400 --> 1:20:24.519 that I've used for the past couple of years simply 1:20:24.640 --> 1:20:28.240 to impress dot Com. I believe they were a wirecutter 1:20:28.360 --> 1:20:30.760 pick at some point and we started trying them and 1:20:30.920 --> 1:20:33.400 we just kind of liked them. The other one that 1:20:33.479 --> 1:20:36.560 we use before that was Minted, which I really like. 1:20:36.680 --> 1:20:39.040 And I always look at the back of the cards 1:20:39.080 --> 1:20:41.519 when we get them over the holidays to see where 1:20:41.640 --> 1:20:45.280 people order their cards, and Minted is very popular. Shutterfly 1:20:45.600 --> 1:20:49.320 obviously very popular. The other place people get them is 1:20:49.479 --> 1:20:53.200 through the local drugstore, so a Walgreens, a CVS, a Target. 1:20:53.479 --> 1:20:54.960 I think it comes down to how much you want 1:20:55.000 --> 1:20:58.040 to spend, how fast you want to get them. But 1:20:58.080 --> 1:21:00.439 I will give you my tips. Number One, I always 1:21:00.600 --> 1:21:03.880 order these on Cyber Monday because I do believe that 1:21:03.960 --> 1:21:06.759 they have the best price of the year on Cyber Monday, 1:21:06.800 --> 1:21:09.679 no matter where you get them, So get those pictures 1:21:09.760 --> 1:21:11.720 ready because you only have a day or two to 1:21:11.800 --> 1:21:14.840 get those ready for Cyber Monday. Also, I never pay 1:21:14.960 --> 1:21:17.040 for the faster shipping at the end of your order. 1:21:17.080 --> 1:21:18.479 When you're all said and done, they're like, Oh, and 1:21:18.560 --> 1:21:20.280 by the way, do you want to wait like six 1:21:20.360 --> 1:21:21.920 weeks to get these or do you want them in 1:21:21.960 --> 1:21:25.040 two days? Of course, the temptation is to upgrade and 1:21:25.120 --> 1:21:27.479 pay a little bit more for that peace of mind 1:21:27.520 --> 1:21:29.000 that you're going to get them in time to send 1:21:29.040 --> 1:21:30.840 them out for the holidays. But I've never done that, 1:21:31.040 --> 1:21:34.559 and they always arrive faster than I think. Of course, 1:21:34.600 --> 1:21:36.200 because I'm telling you this, this is the year that 1:21:36.280 --> 1:21:38.320 that won't happen. But it's always worked out for me. 1:21:39.160 --> 1:21:40.680 I guess the only thing you have to figure out 1:21:40.800 --> 1:21:42.400 is if you want to include a little personal note 1:21:42.479 --> 1:21:48.400 with every picture. Next up in the voicemails, Josie, what is. 1:21:48.560 --> 1:21:53.000 A good free computer cleaner? 1:21:53.840 --> 1:21:56.120 You have to be careful when you're cleaning up your computer, 1:21:56.240 --> 1:21:58.479 but yes, you want your computer to run nice and fast, 1:21:58.560 --> 1:22:01.439 and sometimes these things do get bogged down. My number 1:22:01.479 --> 1:22:04.160 one piece of advice is to do some maintenance. So 1:22:04.800 --> 1:22:08.000 go into your settings, add and remove programs and get 1:22:08.080 --> 1:22:11.520 rid of any programs that you no longer use or recognize. 1:22:12.040 --> 1:22:14.960 Uninstall those, then restart your computer. See if that helps. 1:22:15.000 --> 1:22:16.840 Do the same thing on your web browser. Get rid 1:22:16.880 --> 1:22:19.240 of any extensions you don't use now when it comes 1:22:19.280 --> 1:22:21.280 to programs that are free, A lot of people like 1:22:21.360 --> 1:22:26.120 a program named bleach bit b l e ah bit 1:22:26.680 --> 1:22:29.160 and that will clean your system and free up disc space. 1:22:29.320 --> 1:22:34.519 Another very popular program is C Cleaner C Cleaner and 1:22:34.680 --> 1:22:37.879 that will speed up your PC. It won't do everything 1:22:38.000 --> 1:22:40.839 for free, it will basically just help speed up your computer. 1:22:41.200 --> 1:22:43.960 You can pay for more features after that. And if 1:22:43.960 --> 1:22:45.559 you're on the Mac side of things, the only thing 1:22:45.600 --> 1:22:48.920 that I use is called clean my Mac, and I 1:22:49.040 --> 1:22:51.479 don't believe it's completely free, but I do think they 1:22:51.560 --> 1:22:54.240 have a free level of certain features that you can use. 1:22:54.720 --> 1:22:57.919 Let's get to our last voicemail right now from Melissa 1:22:58.479 --> 1:22:58.960 Hi Rich. 1:23:00.040 --> 1:23:02.480 I just want to say you're so helpful and informative 1:23:03.520 --> 1:23:07.080 and even for a Gen X or splash millennial who 1:23:08.360 --> 1:23:12.120 thinks she knows some tech stuff. I you know, campare 1:23:12.160 --> 1:23:14.800 myself free tech savvy, but you have a lot. And 1:23:14.880 --> 1:23:19.240 also that segment on the ring and trying to get 1:23:19.280 --> 1:23:23.360 my parents to get a ring, what's very helpful. 1:23:23.479 --> 1:23:24.400 So you rock. 1:23:24.479 --> 1:23:27.320 Thank you well, Thank you Melissa for listening, thank you 1:23:27.479 --> 1:23:30.439 for learning, and I do appreciate the kind words. We'll 1:23:30.479 --> 1:23:33.200 have more of your calls and questions coming up right 1:23:33.280 --> 1:23:36.000 after this. Rich on Tech is where you can find 1:23:36.040 --> 1:23:38.479 me on social media. My name is rich Dmiro and 1:23:38.640 --> 1:23:41.639 you are doing something smart. You are listening to rich 1:23:41.760 --> 1:23:46.360 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. This is 1:23:46.439 --> 1:23:48.400 the show where I talk about the tech stuff I 1:23:48.560 --> 1:23:51.200 think you should know about. It's also the place where 1:23:51.240 --> 1:23:54.080 I answer your questions. My name is rich Demiro. You 1:23:54.120 --> 1:23:57.559 can find me on social media at rich on Tech. 1:23:57.600 --> 1:24:03.719 I'm on Instagram, Facebook X sometimes threads, mostly on Instagram Stories. 1:24:03.760 --> 1:24:05.719 That's really where I put a lot on my effort. 1:24:06.160 --> 1:24:09.280 But I realized it's funny. I've realized with Instagram Stories, 1:24:09.400 --> 1:24:12.720 you can't share my stories. So I share a lot 1:24:12.760 --> 1:24:15.680 of like useful information and it's great if you're a 1:24:15.760 --> 1:24:18.320 follower of mine, but if you're a follower, you can't 1:24:18.520 --> 1:24:21.400 share that out to other people. And so I've started 1:24:21.520 --> 1:24:24.479 to actually share stuff that I wouldn't typically share in 1:24:24.640 --> 1:24:27.280 the feed, like in the regular feed. I always thought 1:24:27.280 --> 1:24:29.880 that was just for like pictures and videos, but now 1:24:29.920 --> 1:24:33.000 I'm doing like tech stuff because you can actually share 1:24:33.040 --> 1:24:35.759 that information. So if you see something useful that I share, 1:24:36.360 --> 1:24:38.839 you can send it off to your friends on your stories, 1:24:39.240 --> 1:24:41.240 Whereas if I share that on my stories, you can't 1:24:41.320 --> 1:24:43.640 do that, so it's a small little change. But if 1:24:43.640 --> 1:24:45.759 you do follow me on Instagram. That is the reasoning 1:24:45.920 --> 1:24:48.800 behind why I'm starting to share more of my stuff 1:24:48.880 --> 1:24:51.679 on the main feed, because it just makes it easier. 1:24:52.360 --> 1:24:54.200 You can also listen to this show as a podcast. 1:24:54.600 --> 1:24:56.800 Be sure to subscribe. Just go to rich on tech 1:24:56.880 --> 1:25:00.840 dot tv click the podcast icon so show notes and 1:25:00.920 --> 1:25:03.479 links to everything I mentioned. You can also just search 1:25:03.600 --> 1:25:06.639 rich on tech in your favorite audio app. Of course, 1:25:06.680 --> 1:25:10.040 you can listen right here as well. Let's go to Linda. 1:25:10.360 --> 1:25:12.599 Linda is in Anaheim. Linda, you're on with Rich. 1:25:12.960 --> 1:25:13.080 Hi. 1:25:13.280 --> 1:25:13.479 Rich. 1:25:14.280 --> 1:25:18.760 I have the problems with facetimed group call that. 1:25:19.560 --> 1:25:22.680 It's happened to me twice to my family, and. 1:25:23.040 --> 1:25:25.280 I'm sorry, I'm old. I don't even know how to 1:25:25.400 --> 1:25:25.600 do a. 1:25:25.680 --> 1:25:30.040 FaceTime group call, and of course they don't think. 1:25:29.960 --> 1:25:30.640 That I did it. 1:25:30.960 --> 1:25:33.760 I was three feet away from my phone and I 1:25:33.960 --> 1:25:37.559 received a phone call, I thought, and it was almost 1:25:37.640 --> 1:25:40.880 all of my family, and they said I made the 1:25:40.960 --> 1:25:43.519 phone call. Oh wow, And of course they thought that 1:25:43.680 --> 1:25:47.000 it was an emergency. Oh no, one time once now 1:25:47.120 --> 1:25:49.680 what happened again? The other time I was on the 1:25:49.760 --> 1:25:53.240 phone speaking to someone and all. 1:25:53.120 --> 1:25:55.559 Of a sudden, I go, oh, let me call you back. 1:25:55.600 --> 1:25:58.360 I have a call from my grandson, and again it 1:25:58.479 --> 1:26:01.439 was a whole group of them and a couple of friends. 1:26:01.760 --> 1:26:03.839 Okay, well I think, I think I know what's happening. 1:26:03.960 --> 1:26:07.960 I think, well there is Okay, so this is happening 1:26:08.560 --> 1:26:09.559 when you're on the phone. 1:26:10.560 --> 1:26:13.360 It happened one time when I was not on the phone, 1:26:14.040 --> 1:26:16.479 and it happened one time when I was on the phone. 1:26:16.600 --> 1:26:20.320 Okay. So there is a a group FaceTime feature that 1:26:20.600 --> 1:26:23.280 is on the iPhone, relatively new as of a couple 1:26:23.320 --> 1:26:24.800 of years, where you can have up to I think 1:26:24.920 --> 1:26:28.000 thirty two people in the call. And so a couple 1:26:28.040 --> 1:26:30.000 of the ways you can start this is obviously from 1:26:30.040 --> 1:26:32.160 the FaceTime app, and that would take some time to 1:26:32.439 --> 1:26:35.040 open up the app and set up the call. But 1:26:35.280 --> 1:26:37.280 one of the other ways you can do this is 1:26:37.680 --> 1:26:39.280 through the messages app. 1:26:39.960 --> 1:26:41.960 And so no, I don't want to do that, No, 1:26:42.040 --> 1:26:42.439 I know, but. 1:26:42.439 --> 1:26:44.240 I'm saying, this is how it's happening to you, and 1:26:44.360 --> 1:26:46.559 I think this is this is my theory on what's happening. 1:26:47.080 --> 1:26:50.400 So I feel like, when you're on your phone, this 1:26:50.600 --> 1:26:52.040 is just a theory. By the way, I don't know 1:26:52.080 --> 1:26:53.640 if this is the exact way, but I feel like 1:26:53.680 --> 1:26:57.599 when you're on your phone, there is a FaceTime video 1:26:57.720 --> 1:27:01.519 button in the upper right hand corner, and that FaceTime 1:27:01.640 --> 1:27:04.640 video button could be pressed by your ear when your 1:27:04.760 --> 1:27:07.320 phone is up to your face, and I think that's 1:27:07.320 --> 1:27:08.800 what's happening. And so when you have a bunch of 1:27:08.840 --> 1:27:11.960 people in that group text, your ear is hitting that 1:27:12.080 --> 1:27:14.920 button and it's starting, it's initiating that call. So that's 1:27:14.960 --> 1:27:18.000 one theory. Another way you can start these calls is 1:27:18.120 --> 1:27:21.040 when you're in a text, if you tap the people 1:27:21.240 --> 1:27:24.640 up at the top, there's like a little kind of 1:27:24.720 --> 1:27:27.559 like an info area where it says you can call them, 1:27:27.600 --> 1:27:30.439 you can video chat them, you can mail them. So 1:27:30.600 --> 1:27:33.560 that could be another way that that is getting activated, 1:27:33.640 --> 1:27:36.000 and that's up at the top. So those are the 1:27:36.040 --> 1:27:38.920 two ways I think it's being initiated. If you don't 1:27:39.040 --> 1:27:42.000 want to use FaceTime and you don't want this to happen, 1:27:43.040 --> 1:27:45.040 you know, you can also set the autolock on your 1:27:45.120 --> 1:27:48.400 phone to be to be less of a time so 1:27:48.479 --> 1:27:52.519 it will lock quicker. You can also turn off FaceTime 1:27:52.640 --> 1:27:56.439 completely if you want, and you can turn off FaceTime 1:27:56.520 --> 1:27:59.439 by going into settings and then FaceTime and you can 1:27:59.479 --> 1:28:01.040 turn it off now. Of course that's going to make 1:28:01.040 --> 1:28:03.760 it so that you can't use FaceTime until you turn 1:28:03.840 --> 1:28:06.400 it back on eighty eight rich one on one eight 1:28:06.520 --> 1:28:08.960 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:28:09.760 --> 1:28:13.439 Blue Green sent me a DM on Instagram at rich 1:28:13.520 --> 1:28:17.920 On Tech and it was a scammer impersonating Sandra Bullock. 1:28:17.960 --> 1:28:20.040 And he said, Uh, why is this person trying so 1:28:20.160 --> 1:28:23.240 hard to meet me? What happens if I chat with them? 1:28:23.720 --> 1:28:25.759 Curious if they tried chatting with you? And what happens 1:28:25.800 --> 1:28:28.320 if you talk to them? And good question number one. 1:28:28.360 --> 1:28:31.080 I don't think you should engage with these people, these 1:28:31.160 --> 1:28:35.840 scam artists that you know they're impersonating someone else on Instagram, Facebook, whatever. 1:28:36.320 --> 1:28:38.479 But the bottom line is they are going to try 1:28:38.560 --> 1:28:40.200 to scam you. So I did this the other day 1:28:41.600 --> 1:28:44.960 a guy I know, he was you know, they set 1:28:45.040 --> 1:28:47.320 up a bogus account that looked just like his, grabbed 1:28:47.360 --> 1:28:49.640 his pictures and then he started chatting with me, and 1:28:49.720 --> 1:28:52.519 so of course I'm just curious. So I chatted with him. 1:28:52.560 --> 1:28:54.360 I said, Hey, how you doing, what's going on? I 1:28:54.520 --> 1:28:56.479 missed you at the last Apple event, you know, bl blah, 1:28:56.479 --> 1:28:59.519 blah blah, knowing he wasn't even there, and the person's like, 1:28:59.600 --> 1:29:01.560 oh yeah, house work. And you know, we talked a 1:29:01.600 --> 1:29:04.719 little little niceties back and forth, and I kept trying 1:29:04.720 --> 1:29:07.080 to drop little things that I know only this person 1:29:07.120 --> 1:29:10.719 would know, the real person, that this scam artist wouldn't, 1:29:10.720 --> 1:29:14.719 but he kept ignoring those parts of the questioning anyway, Finally, 1:29:14.840 --> 1:29:17.360 what did he get to? Hey, I've been really getting 1:29:17.360 --> 1:29:20.080 into crypto, and you know, I think that it would 1:29:20.080 --> 1:29:22.479 be great for you to do this. And what do 1:29:22.520 --> 1:29:24.360 they want you to do? They want you to download 1:29:24.400 --> 1:29:26.680 some app, they want you to transfer some money. They 1:29:26.840 --> 1:29:31.040 want to scam you. Be careful, be aware. And it 1:29:31.200 --> 1:29:33.720 looks like someone you know, they're not asking for help, 1:29:33.760 --> 1:29:38.520 They're not, you know, just be aware. Let's go to Vanessa. 1:29:39.320 --> 1:29:42.160 Vanessa in Great Falls. You're on with rich I should 1:29:42.160 --> 1:29:43.280 say Great Falls Montana. 1:29:43.840 --> 1:29:45.640 I years and. 1:29:45.720 --> 1:29:48.240 Years ago, my first computer ever bought was a Gateway. 1:29:48.600 --> 1:29:53.720 Oh nice, I love gateways the cows and yeah, that 1:29:53.880 --> 1:29:56.240 started my oldest son on his pet career. 1:29:57.439 --> 1:30:01.719 And now I see that they've someone is making gateways again. 1:30:01.800 --> 1:30:06.960 And I recently bought two in one tablets laptops for 1:30:07.200 --> 1:30:10.479 my grandchildren that are three and five, but they can 1:30:10.520 --> 1:30:14.679 get started. Sure, what is the best way to set 1:30:14.760 --> 1:30:17.800 that up? So they only have access to the educational 1:30:17.880 --> 1:30:20.599 programs that we're putting on there for them. 1:30:20.880 --> 1:30:23.760 So this is a this is a Microsoft tablet or 1:30:23.880 --> 1:30:25.680 is it a computer? Microsoft? 1:30:26.040 --> 1:30:30.280 It's it's a two in one. You can fold the 1:30:30.360 --> 1:30:33.120 keyboard all the way back. It's almost like the surface 1:30:33.240 --> 1:30:37.080 go and you can hold the keyboard back and use 1:30:37.120 --> 1:30:39.559 it as a tablet or use the keyboard as a computer. 1:30:40.400 --> 1:30:43.479 Okay, so I've got this up for my kids, and 1:30:43.600 --> 1:30:47.360 I believe so on iOS you've got what's called screen Time. 1:30:48.000 --> 1:30:52.080 On Android, you've got what's called Family Link, and with Microsoft, 1:30:52.320 --> 1:30:56.160 I believe it is called Family Safety. And so you 1:30:56.400 --> 1:31:00.160 can set these up as you know, you can set 1:31:00.200 --> 1:31:02.800 them up as a parent or a grandparent to just 1:31:03.200 --> 1:31:05.200 allow them to do the things that you want these 1:31:05.280 --> 1:31:08.160 kids to do on there. So in most cases, and 1:31:08.240 --> 1:31:09.640 it's been a bit since I set these up for 1:31:09.760 --> 1:31:12.479 my kids, but I believe that you put in kind 1:31:12.479 --> 1:31:14.880 of like the age of your child that's accessing it, 1:31:15.640 --> 1:31:18.160 and it will kind of, you know, it'll set some 1:31:18.280 --> 1:31:20.759 defaults like here's the stuff will allow, here's the stuff 1:31:20.800 --> 1:31:23.479 we won't allow. But then you can also go further 1:31:23.600 --> 1:31:25.519 and you could say, let's say they like a certain 1:31:25.560 --> 1:31:28.080 website like PBS kids or something. You can allow that 1:31:28.200 --> 1:31:31.360 specifically on the list of websites. But it also gives 1:31:31.439 --> 1:31:34.080 you a rundown of what they search online if you 1:31:34.200 --> 1:31:36.559 choose to allow that, or you can of course block searches. 1:31:37.160 --> 1:31:39.200 You can limit the time that they spend on these 1:31:39.320 --> 1:31:42.000 different apps and things, and of course just make it 1:31:42.080 --> 1:31:44.880 so they can't install anything new. But that's really what 1:31:45.120 --> 1:31:48.840 it starts with, is this Microsoft Family Safety is getting 1:31:48.840 --> 1:31:51.439 that installed, setting it up. You may have to create 1:31:51.479 --> 1:31:54.080 an account for the child, but once you get that 1:31:54.200 --> 1:31:57.400 on there, you know you're in control now for the 1:31:57.479 --> 1:31:59.799 most part, because sometimes it can be a little tricky 1:32:00.000 --> 1:32:02.760 and be a little frustrating because once you set this up, 1:32:02.800 --> 1:32:04.640 there may be something the child wants to do on 1:32:04.760 --> 1:32:07.559 there where they can't easily do it because it has 1:32:07.640 --> 1:32:10.640 all these restrictions in place. But no matter what, if 1:32:10.680 --> 1:32:12.080 you are setting up I know there's a lot of 1:32:12.160 --> 1:32:14.679 parents that sort of give up on this stuff because 1:32:14.880 --> 1:32:17.040 it can be a little complicated to get set up, 1:32:17.120 --> 1:32:18.760 and so they say, you know what, nevermind, I'll just 1:32:18.800 --> 1:32:21.320 hand them the tablet or the phone or their laptop. 1:32:21.760 --> 1:32:24.240 But please do not do that because there is just 1:32:24.360 --> 1:32:27.760 too much that they can happen upon if you don't 1:32:27.800 --> 1:32:29.599 have these things locked down. And I'm not saying they're 1:32:29.600 --> 1:32:33.240 even looking for stuff, but it's a matter of things 1:32:33.320 --> 1:32:35.960 can be presented to them, or they may search for 1:32:36.080 --> 1:32:38.720 something and it may just bring up something that you 1:32:38.920 --> 1:32:40.840 don't want them to see or they shouldn't be seeing 1:32:40.880 --> 1:32:44.240 at their age. You are doing something smart today. You're 1:32:44.320 --> 1:32:48.760 listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:32:48.880 --> 1:32:51.840 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology and 1:32:52.080 --> 1:32:57.080 joining me now is Jacob Palmer of best Reviews dot com. Jacob, 1:32:57.120 --> 1:32:58.040 thanks so much for joining me. 1:32:58.160 --> 1:32:59.000 Thanks so much for having me. 1:32:59.400 --> 1:33:02.320 All Right, so explain what Best Reviews is all about 1:33:02.400 --> 1:33:04.360 before we start talking about some of these items you 1:33:04.479 --> 1:33:07.479 identified as being great for holiday gifts. 1:33:07.760 --> 1:33:10.639 Yeah. So, we spend all year trying to connect people 1:33:10.760 --> 1:33:12.880 with the best products that are out there on the market, 1:33:13.240 --> 1:33:15.400 and we do that to figure out what is the best. 1:33:15.479 --> 1:33:18.679 We do that by testing side by side in real 1:33:18.720 --> 1:33:20.880 world environments, so we can tell people, you know, this 1:33:21.040 --> 1:33:23.439 is the best if that money can buy, this is 1:33:23.479 --> 1:33:24.920 the best if you're trying to save some money and 1:33:24.920 --> 1:33:26.880 you want to find the right value, and so we're 1:33:26.920 --> 1:33:29.160 always trying to connect people with the best products at 1:33:29.200 --> 1:33:30.960 the best prices. So this time of year is a 1:33:31.080 --> 1:33:33.559 huge time for us because all that testing we did 1:33:34.000 --> 1:33:36.559 around the clock all year long is now really coming 1:33:36.600 --> 1:33:37.880 to a head because this is when people want to 1:33:37.920 --> 1:33:39.240 get those absolute best products. 1:33:39.680 --> 1:33:42.200 Full disclosure, Best reviews dot Com is owned by the 1:33:42.320 --> 1:33:45.160 same company that I work for on TV called Nextstar. 1:33:45.439 --> 1:33:48.160 With that said, let's get to some of these recommendations. 1:33:48.560 --> 1:33:51.479 Let's start with Dyson products. These are a premium product. 1:33:51.640 --> 1:33:54.040 Why do you recommend these this holiday season? 1:33:54.320 --> 1:33:56.400 So the thing with Dyson is is that it's that 1:33:56.640 --> 1:33:59.439 high end brand name that people love and really want 1:33:59.479 --> 1:34:02.400 the hair shit, and this year we're expecting to see 1:34:02.479 --> 1:34:05.439 huge discounts on them. So if you're looking for either 1:34:05.479 --> 1:34:08.360 one of their top of the line vacuums or also 1:34:08.439 --> 1:34:11.120 they have great air purifiers. They also have a line 1:34:11.120 --> 1:34:14.240 of hair care products, whether it's blow dryers and things 1:34:14.280 --> 1:34:16.920 like that, they're all gonna be marked down and I 1:34:16.960 --> 1:34:18.639 think there's gonna be on a lot of people's lists. 1:34:18.680 --> 1:34:20.240 So this is definitely a time to look out for. 1:34:20.280 --> 1:34:22.479 That now, these have been around for a while, thorough gun. 1:34:22.520 --> 1:34:26.439 They sort of invented this genre of a massage gun. 1:34:26.520 --> 1:34:28.760 I guess you'd call it. What do you like about these? 1:34:28.880 --> 1:34:32.760 Yeah, personal percussion massage guns essentially is what it is. 1:34:33.160 --> 1:34:35.479 And what we love about it is that it's just 1:34:35.840 --> 1:34:38.400 a great gift because it's something that people don't think 1:34:38.479 --> 1:34:41.040 to buy for themselves. So we're always getting feedback. We're 1:34:41.080 --> 1:34:44.640 always trying to hear from different users, different testers, and 1:34:44.960 --> 1:34:47.400 what they gave in terms of gifts, and then what 1:34:47.640 --> 1:34:49.760 was the feedback and what was the reaction to it, 1:34:50.160 --> 1:34:52.919 And this always comes in as one of the absolute 1:34:52.960 --> 1:34:55.640 most popular gifts. It's a little bit more expensive, but 1:34:56.080 --> 1:34:59.120 for the last several years we've seen them do significant discounts. 1:34:59.120 --> 1:35:00.960 You know, I'm talking about a great or more dollars 1:35:01.000 --> 1:35:03.560 off on the full price. And so this is a 1:35:03.600 --> 1:35:05.000 great time of year to be able to get this 1:35:05.160 --> 1:35:07.080 and make somebody truly happy for when they're opening up 1:35:07.080 --> 1:35:07.599 their presence. 1:35:08.160 --> 1:35:10.360 This is a fun gift and something I got my kids, 1:35:10.400 --> 1:35:14.439 I believe last year. Fujifilm in stacks Mini twelve. It's 1:35:14.520 --> 1:35:17.000 kind of like a Polaroid, but for today's. 1:35:16.680 --> 1:35:19.320 Generation and what we've seen from today's generation is they're 1:35:19.360 --> 1:35:21.200 bringing back a lot of the cooler things of the 1:35:21.280 --> 1:35:25.320 nineties and this is, you know, recapturing that magic from 1:35:25.600 --> 1:35:28.040 when people would originally buy a polaroid and then the 1:35:28.200 --> 1:35:31.040 camera itself would spit out the image almost instantly. This 1:35:31.200 --> 1:35:34.360 allows the kids to be able to control their own space, 1:35:34.520 --> 1:35:37.439 create their own art hanging up in their walls. And 1:35:37.560 --> 1:35:40.680 it's not that expensive. It's a better piece of technology 1:35:40.840 --> 1:35:43.280 than what we were messing with in the nineties. But 1:35:43.479 --> 1:35:46.120 it's also, you know, really really popular right now because 1:35:46.160 --> 1:35:48.600 for some reason, what's old is new again. So this 1:35:48.760 --> 1:35:51.240 is a great one to consider for that nephew, you know, 1:35:51.280 --> 1:35:52.360 the grand kids in your life. 1:35:52.680 --> 1:35:54.800 One thing that hasn't changed though the film is still 1:35:55.000 --> 1:35:55.960 an expensive part. 1:35:55.840 --> 1:35:57.960 Of this, Yeah it is, and it's definitely something to 1:35:58.040 --> 1:35:59.120 consider when you're buying it. 1:35:59.520 --> 1:36:00.439 Go Pro so Hero. 1:36:00.520 --> 1:36:03.000 Eleven this is the latest go Pro. What do you 1:36:03.080 --> 1:36:05.519 like about this device? This is a great product for 1:36:05.600 --> 1:36:07.720 that person in your life who's doing cool things. The 1:36:07.840 --> 1:36:11.160 mountain climber, the person who loves to go surfing, loves 1:36:11.200 --> 1:36:14.120 to hit the slopes and go skiing or snowboarding, and 1:36:14.280 --> 1:36:17.240 so this most recent one is great because they've added 1:36:17.320 --> 1:36:21.120 stabilization features to it. It shoots in really clear picture. 1:36:21.640 --> 1:36:24.200 It's also incredibly durable. You know, we were testing it, 1:36:24.560 --> 1:36:26.679 taking it down the mountain, we were testing it going 1:36:26.760 --> 1:36:28.960 surfing and doing all these things. But then you see 1:36:29.000 --> 1:36:31.439 the footage and you're like, I instantly get why people 1:36:31.560 --> 1:36:34.280 want these and why we always say that these are 1:36:34.320 --> 1:36:35.960 really cool for people doing cool things. 1:36:36.520 --> 1:36:39.040 Now, this is not necessarily technology, but it was made 1:36:39.120 --> 1:36:44.640 popular through social media and TikTok. The Jumra cloud slippers. 1:36:44.760 --> 1:36:46.200 Why do you like these so much? So? 1:36:46.360 --> 1:36:49.479 These are great, but they're just the most comfortable house 1:36:49.520 --> 1:36:52.920 slipper you'll ever have. And it's you know, they're rubber 1:36:53.280 --> 1:36:55.680 and they don't look like much, but when you put 1:36:55.680 --> 1:36:57.160 your foot in it and you walk around the house, 1:36:57.280 --> 1:36:59.160 it really does feel like you're walking on a cloud, 1:36:59.320 --> 1:37:01.360 which is why they're called that. And you know, for 1:37:01.520 --> 1:37:04.679 only at full price there about forty dollars. I expect 1:37:04.720 --> 1:37:07.479 over the holiday shopping peak when things are really marked down, 1:37:07.479 --> 1:37:09.920 they'll probably be available for fifteen or twenty bucks. And 1:37:10.040 --> 1:37:11.559 it's another one of these things when we get our 1:37:11.640 --> 1:37:14.840 user feedback, we've never had somebody say bad things about them. 1:37:14.880 --> 1:37:17.200 And they only say, I've replaced all of my other 1:37:17.280 --> 1:37:19.240 house slippers and these are the ones I'm walking around on. 1:37:19.720 --> 1:37:22.839 The Kindle is always a popular gift during the holiday 1:37:22.880 --> 1:37:26.280 season for people that like to read. The Kindlescribe, I 1:37:26.320 --> 1:37:28.719 think is the newest model. It's got the biggest screen. 1:37:28.800 --> 1:37:30.439 You can write on it. What do you like about this? 1:37:30.800 --> 1:37:33.679 So this is perfect for the college students, the person 1:37:33.760 --> 1:37:37.240 who's actively learning because it allows you for the first 1:37:37.360 --> 1:37:40.840 time to annotate and really do it easily. You know, 1:37:40.960 --> 1:37:43.720 it's not clicking in and then typing, and it's not complicated. 1:37:44.040 --> 1:37:46.559 You're literally just writing on the screen. And so it's 1:37:46.600 --> 1:37:49.040 great for that person who's learning and reading a lot 1:37:49.320 --> 1:37:50.719 and needs to be able to write in the margins. 1:37:50.760 --> 1:37:52.599 So we love the Kindle for this person's well because 1:37:52.600 --> 1:37:54.800 also helps them kind of consolidate and not to have 1:37:54.880 --> 1:37:56.320 to have too many books going at once. 1:37:56.640 --> 1:37:58.960 And I will add when the Kindlescribe first came out, 1:37:59.439 --> 1:38:02.280 the reviews or mixed, but it was mostly because of 1:38:02.320 --> 1:38:05.640 the software. And Amazon has continually evolved the software on 1:38:05.680 --> 1:38:07.800 this device to make it better. For the golf lover 1:38:08.000 --> 1:38:10.320 in your life. You've got a couple of Garmin products 1:38:10.360 --> 1:38:14.280 to recommend tell me about the R ten and the rangefinder. 1:38:14.640 --> 1:38:16.960 Yeah, so these are products for that person who's really 1:38:17.720 --> 1:38:19.840 growing their love of the game and embracing it in 1:38:19.960 --> 1:38:22.599 big ways. The R ten is for somebody who wants 1:38:22.640 --> 1:38:25.559 to fill out there at home practice setup that maybe 1:38:25.560 --> 1:38:27.400 they've already got a net, they want to get some 1:38:27.560 --> 1:38:30.040 data on what their shots are doing. It's an awesome 1:38:30.120 --> 1:38:31.000 beginner's model. 1:38:31.080 --> 1:38:31.200 You know. 1:38:31.520 --> 1:38:33.840 It's way more affordable than what you're going to see 1:38:33.920 --> 1:38:36.360 in all the competitors, so a lot of people don't 1:38:36.360 --> 1:38:38.280 want to spend thousands and thousands of dollars. This is 1:38:38.320 --> 1:38:39.920 a way to get that kind of technology for five 1:38:40.000 --> 1:38:42.040 hundred tested out, see if you like it. And then 1:38:42.080 --> 1:38:44.720 they also have a really interesting product which is their 1:38:45.040 --> 1:38:48.280 rangefinder that you mentioned. That is interesting because it uses 1:38:48.320 --> 1:38:51.599 augmented reality. So when you're looking through the rangefinder, you're 1:38:51.640 --> 1:38:53.040 not just seeing what's in front of you, but you 1:38:53.120 --> 1:38:55.840 can also see the map of the whole and you 1:38:55.960 --> 1:38:58.320 can see, you know, the bunker. It automatically is telling 1:38:58.360 --> 1:39:00.519 you you're this close to that bunker and that water trap. 1:39:00.840 --> 1:39:02.439 So it adds a lot of different features that I 1:39:02.479 --> 1:39:04.479 think is pretty innovative in terms of what we're seeing 1:39:04.520 --> 1:39:06.519 from golf products, especially in the rangefinder space. 1:39:07.040 --> 1:39:09.599 Now, you brought a fun little toy called the Bitsy 1:39:10.160 --> 1:39:12.320 and I had not seen this, but I'm always on 1:39:12.400 --> 1:39:14.800 the lookout for kind of a fun, unique techie toy, 1:39:15.240 --> 1:39:16.400 and this fits all the bills. 1:39:16.720 --> 1:39:19.600 Yeah, it's really interesting and it's what we're expecting to 1:39:19.680 --> 1:39:23.000 be the it holiday toy this year, so the one 1:39:23.040 --> 1:39:25.240 that everybody's going to be talking about, whether you understand 1:39:25.280 --> 1:39:27.960 it or not. And it's just a fun little device 1:39:28.280 --> 1:39:30.439 that has a kind of mini little projector on it 1:39:30.520 --> 1:39:32.799 and it puts interesting photos in front of you, interesting 1:39:32.880 --> 1:39:35.840 little kind of illustrations for the kid to love and all. 1:39:35.960 --> 1:39:38.559 You know, again, we use testers in real life environments, 1:39:38.560 --> 1:39:40.080 so we were giving this to a four year old 1:39:40.360 --> 1:39:42.760 and he just spent hours just playing with it, even 1:39:42.800 --> 1:39:45.000 if it is super simple. And the thing that parents 1:39:45.080 --> 1:39:46.960 love about it is is that it's not a screen, 1:39:47.439 --> 1:39:49.679 so you're not dealing with some of the same effects 1:39:49.720 --> 1:39:51.920 of you know, uh, putting an iPad, you know, giving 1:39:51.960 --> 1:39:53.639 him an iPad, giving them a different kind of tablet. 1:39:53.760 --> 1:39:56.519 So it's it's popular for both the kids and the parents, 1:39:56.640 --> 1:39:58.760 is what we found so far. What's the price point 1:39:58.840 --> 1:40:02.440 on the bits b it he Ze. It's fairly affordable, 1:40:02.600 --> 1:40:04.600 you know, it's not going to be overly expensive. So 1:40:04.760 --> 1:40:06.639 it's one of these things that during the holiday period 1:40:06.680 --> 1:40:08.360 we're expecting to see it for less than fifty dollars. 1:40:08.840 --> 1:40:11.599 Nestub Max from Google is a product that's been around 1:40:11.640 --> 1:40:13.559 for a while, but it does so many different things. 1:40:13.600 --> 1:40:15.600 What I love about it is that it displays my 1:40:15.720 --> 1:40:16.759 personal photo collection. 1:40:17.160 --> 1:40:19.479 What do you like about it? So it does that right, 1:40:19.560 --> 1:40:22.519 and that's always a really popular gift is the smart 1:40:22.560 --> 1:40:25.280 photo frind. But it also it has a solid speaker 1:40:25.360 --> 1:40:27.640 on it. It also you can use it for a 1:40:27.720 --> 1:40:30.120 normal just kind of at home voice assistance, so you 1:40:30.240 --> 1:40:32.800 keep it in the kitchen and you're able to use 1:40:32.800 --> 1:40:34.680 it as timers. You're able to have it show you, 1:40:35.120 --> 1:40:36.680 you know, how do I dice an onion? And then 1:40:36.680 --> 1:40:39.040 it'll show you in real time. And then it also 1:40:39.080 --> 1:40:41.120 has a camera on it so it can host video chatting, 1:40:41.120 --> 1:40:43.200 which is great for folks that want to be able 1:40:43.240 --> 1:40:45.920 to set something up in the home of maybe a 1:40:46.000 --> 1:40:48.439 less tech savvy person in their life and still be 1:40:48.479 --> 1:40:50.280 able to share those moments, still be able to connect. 1:40:50.280 --> 1:40:51.760 So we love it for all those reasons, But the 1:40:51.880 --> 1:40:53.360 number one reason why we love it and why it's 1:40:53.360 --> 1:40:55.280 in all of our holiday gift guides is it can 1:40:55.360 --> 1:40:59.080 be easily paired and command a smart thermostat, so you 1:40:59.120 --> 1:41:01.320 can save money on your heating bill, which you know, 1:41:01.400 --> 1:41:04.040 as those prices continue to rise, it's a great way 1:41:04.080 --> 1:41:06.760 to kind of control what you can control and limit 1:41:06.840 --> 1:41:07.720 a cost where you can. 1:41:07.840 --> 1:41:09.920 So we love it for that as well, and always 1:41:09.960 --> 1:41:12.559 a favor. I probably get more questions about this product 1:41:12.600 --> 1:41:15.000 than anything else at this point. The Apple Watch. 1:41:15.439 --> 1:41:17.679 What we're seeing is that they're just truly, truly popular. 1:41:18.040 --> 1:41:20.240 What we found in our testing. We have been testing 1:41:20.320 --> 1:41:23.720 the brand new model, the nine, and we like it, 1:41:24.280 --> 1:41:26.920 but we do think right now for this holiday season 1:41:27.080 --> 1:41:31.040 we're recommending looking at the slightly you know, earlier version. 1:41:31.720 --> 1:41:34.519 We love the Ultra, and then we also really like 1:41:34.560 --> 1:41:37.360 the eight because it's just smooth, it's effective, and like 1:41:37.479 --> 1:41:40.360 you said, it's going to be more discounted this holiday period. 1:41:40.600 --> 1:41:42.519 So if you're looking to save money and when you're 1:41:42.560 --> 1:41:44.880 in the market for Apple products, that's not a bad idea. 1:41:45.640 --> 1:41:47.320 You know, we are thinking right now in terms of 1:41:47.360 --> 1:41:49.519 our testing that we're gonna recommend going for a slightly 1:41:49.600 --> 1:41:51.639 older version because you're still going to get a great product. 1:41:52.080 --> 1:41:55.400 Jacob Palmer of best Reviews dot com. You can find 1:41:55.560 --> 1:41:58.400 all of their reviews and deals at the website best 1:41:58.600 --> 1:42:01.559 Reviews dot com. Thanks so much for joining me and thanks. 1:42:01.400 --> 1:42:01.760 For having me. 1:42:01.920 --> 1:42:03.920 You know, this year's cyber Monday is going to be 1:42:03.960 --> 1:42:06.160 a last call for saving. After that, a lot of 1:42:06.160 --> 1:42:08.679 the companies are going to be taking the prices high again. 1:42:08.880 --> 1:42:11.880 So you know, I understand if you wait. I wait 1:42:11.960 --> 1:42:13.920 things out all the time, but you can't expect to 1:42:13.960 --> 1:42:16.120 pay high or if you don't shop by cyber linking. 1:42:16.760 --> 1:42:18.639 All right, there you have it, Get those deals while 1:42:18.640 --> 1:42:21.280 they're hot. More rich on Tech coming your way right 1:42:21.360 --> 1:42:28.120 after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro 1:42:28.280 --> 1:42:30.840 here hanging out with you, talking technology, and if you 1:42:30.880 --> 1:42:33.880 can believe it, now it is time for the feedback segment. 1:42:34.080 --> 1:42:36.640 These are the emails, the comments, and the questions I 1:42:36.760 --> 1:42:39.679 have gotten from you, and if you'd like to submit yours, 1:42:39.840 --> 1:42:42.360 just go to rich on Tech dot tv and hit 1:42:42.479 --> 1:42:46.320 the contact link. Yes, you take advantage of this. Thank 1:42:46.400 --> 1:42:49.320 you for all of your emails throughout the week. While 1:42:49.320 --> 1:42:51.519 you're on the website, you can follow me on social media. 1:42:51.600 --> 1:42:54.919 I am at rich on Tech on Instagram, Facebook, threads, 1:42:55.080 --> 1:42:58.840 and pretty much any social media platform. And if you 1:42:59.000 --> 1:43:01.080 like what you hear on the radio show, be sure 1:43:01.120 --> 1:43:04.160 to watch my TV segments. I cover a variety of 1:43:04.320 --> 1:43:06.639 tech topics. Just go to rich on tech dot tv 1:43:06.880 --> 1:43:10.000 to watch those. You can also find them on YouTube. Okay, 1:43:10.200 --> 1:43:13.000 without further ado, let's get to some of the feedback. 1:43:13.439 --> 1:43:16.479 Michael says, I ordered the new iPhone fifteen promacs and 1:43:16.560 --> 1:43:19.759 would like to control the camera zoom now five times 1:43:19.800 --> 1:43:23.280 optical and focus from an external controller. I plan on 1:43:23.439 --> 1:43:25.639 using the phone in a small rig case and would 1:43:25.680 --> 1:43:30.599 like precise control over the camera functions. Love the show well, 1:43:30.680 --> 1:43:34.000 I told Michael I was not aware of a controller 1:43:34.120 --> 1:43:36.880 for the iPhone that would do this, but apparently he 1:43:37.000 --> 1:43:39.799 found one because he updated me with a new email 1:43:39.880 --> 1:43:42.200 and said, hey, I found a solution for the wireless 1:43:42.439 --> 1:43:45.560 lens control for an iPhone camera. It is called the 1:43:45.760 --> 1:43:50.240 Nucleus Wireless Lens Control and he sent along a link 1:43:50.320 --> 1:43:54.840 from BH Photo and Video. It's expensive one hundred and 1:43:55.120 --> 1:43:57.800 sixty nine dollars, but it looks like it is a 1:43:58.000 --> 1:44:01.960 handwheel controller that will control the iPhone, and he says 1:44:02.120 --> 1:44:06.560 the black Magic Camera app will work as well with 1:44:06.720 --> 1:44:09.120 the controller, So there you go. That is definitely a 1:44:09.280 --> 1:44:11.719 pro setup. I think most people are just gonna pinch 1:44:11.760 --> 1:44:14.000 to zoom on their screen, but that is a great 1:44:14.040 --> 1:44:15.640 way to go. I'm glad you found that, Michael, and 1:44:15.720 --> 1:44:19.280 we can share. Let's see. Leanne via Instagram says, I 1:44:19.439 --> 1:44:23.400 really enjoy your show on KFI. Your format and demeanor 1:44:23.439 --> 1:44:27.960 while explaining tech is refreshing. Well, thank you, LeAnn. KFI 1:44:28.160 --> 1:44:31.960 in Los Angeles, of course, one of our popular stations, 1:44:32.720 --> 1:44:35.439 and of course where I'm based. Let's see. Dave via 1:44:35.560 --> 1:44:39.519 Instagram says, upon your review recommendation, I just purchased Super 1:44:39.600 --> 1:44:43.960 Mario Wonder for my nephew and my daughter. They're playing it. 1:44:44.080 --> 1:44:46.800 They're having a blast, So there you go. All right, Yes, 1:44:46.960 --> 1:44:48.880 that is a great game, and it's even been on 1:44:49.040 --> 1:44:52.879 sale throughout some of these Cyber Monday Black Friday specials, 1:44:52.920 --> 1:44:54.720 so see if you can get it at a discount. 1:44:55.320 --> 1:44:57.680 Greg says, listen to your podcast and heard you talk 1:44:57.720 --> 1:44:59.760 about the Mint application shutting down at the end of 1:44:59.800 --> 1:45:02.240 the year. You give a list of alternatives, but I 1:45:02.320 --> 1:45:04.960 want to give you one more for Windows ten Slash eleven. 1:45:05.320 --> 1:45:09.120 It's called Greg's Budget. It's available on the Microsoft Store 1:45:09.160 --> 1:45:12.360 for thirty dollars with no subscription fees. I've been using 1:45:12.400 --> 1:45:14.320 it for years to stay on budget and plan for 1:45:14.360 --> 1:45:17.439 the future. Full disclosure, I did write this application, so 1:45:17.520 --> 1:45:19.360 I'm a little biased, but it is a great app. 1:45:19.360 --> 1:45:22.160 All right. Well, there you go Greg's Budget on the 1:45:22.400 --> 1:45:27.040 Microsoft Store. Yes, a lot of people looking for alternatives 1:45:27.120 --> 1:45:29.880 to Mint, and what I've seen is that almost all 1:45:29.960 --> 1:45:32.880 of them are paid this time around. So it's kind 1:45:32.920 --> 1:45:35.080 of odd to pay anywhere from thirty to one hundred 1:45:35.080 --> 1:45:38.559 dollars a year for budgeting. But that is I guess, 1:45:38.640 --> 1:45:44.000 the new reality here. Let's see here via Instagram. Hey, rich, 1:45:44.120 --> 1:45:46.840 my brother is reporting I'm getting a lot of scam 1:45:46.920 --> 1:45:50.599 attempts on Venmo. Don't fall for it. Someone will send 1:45:50.600 --> 1:45:53.240 you one hundred dollars and claim it's an accident and 1:45:53.360 --> 1:45:55.240 they will ask for you to send the money back. 1:45:55.400 --> 1:45:58.040 Do not fall for it. There are YouTube videos on it. 1:45:58.120 --> 1:46:00.920 It's usually from a stolen account. It's money that will 1:46:00.960 --> 1:46:03.840 end up being retrieved once the victim reports it, which 1:46:03.960 --> 1:46:07.080 leaves you without the money that you quote unquote sent back. 1:46:07.240 --> 1:46:11.240 Just an FYI, thanks love your work. Yes, so many 1:46:11.400 --> 1:46:16.120 of these scams on all these payment systems, whether it's Zell, 1:46:16.200 --> 1:46:19.360 whether it's Venmo, whether it's PayPal. If someone's offering to 1:46:19.520 --> 1:46:22.080 send you money and then says it's a mistake, or 1:46:22.120 --> 1:46:23.720 they send you money and they say can you send 1:46:23.800 --> 1:46:25.560 back and they send you more than they should and 1:46:25.600 --> 1:46:27.120 you got to send back the difference. No matter what, 1:46:27.520 --> 1:46:30.120 it's all a scam. Do not fall for it. It's 1:46:30.200 --> 1:46:32.840 too good to be true. You're trying to get free money. 1:46:33.320 --> 1:46:35.240 Some people are greedy, They're going to fall for it. 1:46:35.479 --> 1:46:39.120 Do not fall for it. Jason says, thanks for the 1:46:39.479 --> 1:46:42.760 article about the Zumo. You can't get cloud storage through 1:46:42.800 --> 1:46:45.600 Spectrum unless you have a cable box. The joys of 1:46:45.720 --> 1:46:49.200 cable companies. One step forward, nine steps back. Maybe someday 1:46:49.240 --> 1:46:53.000 they will figure it out. Enjoy your radio show on KFI. So, Jason, 1:46:53.120 --> 1:46:56.040 I had to check with Spectrum because I didn't think 1:46:56.120 --> 1:46:58.280 that was the case. Why would they make you have 1:46:58.320 --> 1:47:00.320 a cable box when the whole point of this zo 1:47:00.960 --> 1:47:03.960 is to replace your cable box. So I did confirm 1:47:04.080 --> 1:47:08.519 you can get cloud storage through the zoomo box. So 1:47:08.760 --> 1:47:11.760 I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but check 1:47:11.800 --> 1:47:15.879 it out again because Apparently you can get cloud storage, 1:47:15.960 --> 1:47:19.760 cloud DVR through Spectrum through the Zoomo box, and that 1:47:19.960 --> 1:47:23.599 is x Umo, So check it out again. It's uh 1:47:23.920 --> 1:47:26.040 if you didn't catch the coverage on the Zoomo box. 1:47:26.160 --> 1:47:29.200 It's kind of a mix of a streaming box like 1:47:29.240 --> 1:47:32.280 an Apple TV, but a cable box as well. Of course, 1:47:32.320 --> 1:47:34.760 there is no cable box and everything is delivered through 1:47:34.800 --> 1:47:37.280 the internet. So if you're sticking with cable and you 1:47:37.400 --> 1:47:41.320 have Spectrum or Exfinity through Comcast, this is sort of 1:47:41.360 --> 1:47:44.800 a joint venture. It's their way of kind of putting 1:47:44.840 --> 1:47:46.920 out a box that's like a fire TV or a 1:47:47.080 --> 1:47:50.679 Roku or an Apple TV, but it is the cable 1:47:50.760 --> 1:47:56.519 company's brand and it's called Zumo x Umo. Neil says, hey, Rich, 1:47:56.640 --> 1:48:00.000 interesting story that you told someone following for sending money 1:48:00.000 --> 1:48:01.760 I need is someone they don't know in order to 1:48:01.840 --> 1:48:04.800 clear up an account problem. How many stupidities are on 1:48:04.920 --> 1:48:08.040 that call? Let someone control your computer. The other common 1:48:08.120 --> 1:48:10.160 thing is I will send you extra money and we 1:48:10.240 --> 1:48:12.040 need to send some of it back, and you will 1:48:12.080 --> 1:48:13.840 have to send some of it back. Of course you 1:48:13.880 --> 1:48:16.479 will lose on that when the initial transaction is canceled. 1:48:16.840 --> 1:48:19.320 We know that support numbers on Google are often fake 1:48:19.640 --> 1:48:23.080 numbers and ads. Basically, this person is falling for everything 1:48:23.120 --> 1:48:26.679 you tell us about online selling cash when the person 1:48:26.800 --> 1:48:32.960 arrives to pick up the goods, Facebook marketplace is a jungle. Neil, Yes, Neil, 1:48:33.240 --> 1:48:35.400 these are all the things I talk about. Not everyone 1:48:35.600 --> 1:48:38.160 is aware of everything, And yes, there are always going 1:48:38.240 --> 1:48:40.240 to be people that fall for this stuff. So that 1:48:40.439 --> 1:48:43.240 is just the way it is, Charles. That's why you 1:48:43.360 --> 1:48:45.560 listen to this show, so you understand this stuff and 1:48:45.640 --> 1:48:48.000 you don't fall for it. Oh more comments about the 1:48:48.080 --> 1:48:51.040 Zumo box, Hey Rich, the Zumo streaming box is not 1:48:51.240 --> 1:48:54.080 ready for prime time. I picked up two to replace 1:48:54.160 --> 1:48:58.200 my set top boxes. Things went smoothly but took some time. 1:48:58.520 --> 1:49:00.680 I have Max and Showtime any Time as part of 1:49:00.760 --> 1:49:05.519 my Spectrum package. Activating Max was frustratingly slow. The Showtime 1:49:05.560 --> 1:49:08.000 Anytime app was nowhere to be found, so I called 1:49:08.080 --> 1:49:11.240 Zumo Tech Help as Spectrum. She was pleasant, but knew 1:49:11.400 --> 1:49:14.599 very little about the box. After being put on hold 1:49:14.640 --> 1:49:18.200 several times, it turns out some Zumo boxes have Showtime Anytime, 1:49:18.560 --> 1:49:21.840 some don't. That's odd, but they don't know which ones 1:49:21.880 --> 1:49:23.880 have it and which ones don't. Also, you can't add 1:49:23.880 --> 1:49:26.559 apps to the Zoomo box like you can other streaming boxes. 1:49:27.040 --> 1:49:30.320 Spectrum solution was to keep exchanging Zoomo boxes until I 1:49:30.439 --> 1:49:33.640 had one that had the Showtime Anytime on it. Spectrum's 1:49:33.680 --> 1:49:36.120 excuse was that these Zumo boxes are new and they're 1:49:36.120 --> 1:49:39.639 still learning. Seriously. Needless to say, I returned them via 1:49:39.680 --> 1:49:42.000 the UPS store, and then I was off to Walmart 1:49:42.080 --> 1:49:44.840 for a couple of Roku Expresses for twenty four dollars each. 1:49:45.160 --> 1:49:46.920 They may not have all the bells and whistles that 1:49:46.960 --> 1:49:50.120 the Zumo box has, but set up was easier and faster, 1:49:50.479 --> 1:49:53.400 adding apps as possible, and navigating it was at least 1:49:53.479 --> 1:49:56.799 as quick as it was on Zumo. The box has potential, 1:49:57.160 --> 1:49:59.519 but it should not have been sold until its obvious 1:49:59.640 --> 1:50:03.439 short cummings are fixed and until spectrums Zoomo tech help 1:50:03.520 --> 1:50:06.360 people are familiar with it. Well, it's odd that they 1:50:06.400 --> 1:50:08.960 would not have showtime Anytime. I know that showtime has 1:50:09.040 --> 1:50:11.800 been mixed into Paramount Plus, so maybe you'd find it there. 1:50:12.280 --> 1:50:16.840 But I agree, I think that these boxes are good. Again, 1:50:17.080 --> 1:50:19.120 if you want to keep cable and you like that 1:50:19.320 --> 1:50:21.720 idea of cable, maybe we have time for one more. 1:50:22.160 --> 1:50:25.120 Walt says, interesting comments about the Rivian. They do look cool. 1:50:25.160 --> 1:50:27.759 The price involved is truly the highest negative. That seems 1:50:27.800 --> 1:50:30.720 to be skip slash missed. Who in the population is 1:50:30.800 --> 1:50:33.920 truly spending fifty thousand dollars plus on a vehicle, let 1:50:34.000 --> 1:50:39.759 alone one hundred k? Or is this truly a leasing situation? Walt? Finally, 1:50:39.800 --> 1:50:43.160 one more, Sarafim says, looking for several solutions. I take 1:50:43.280 --> 1:50:46.120 videos and pictures with a Samsung S twenty three Ultra. 1:50:46.520 --> 1:50:49.519 I need a better input tool, but need software to 1:50:49.920 --> 1:50:53.920 slow down the UAPs and morphing beings, apply motion tracking 1:50:54.000 --> 1:50:57.080 and zoom in and out. Sarahfim, I have no idea 1:50:57.120 --> 1:50:58.840 what you're talking about. I had to look this up. 1:50:59.040 --> 1:51:04.200 Unidentified anomalists phenomena morphing beings that can change their form 1:51:04.320 --> 1:51:08.439 or identity. It will Some examples include shape shifters. Oooh, 1:51:08.680 --> 1:51:11.040 this is way above my pay grade. I don't know 1:51:11.360 --> 1:51:15.040 what you're talking about, but yes, sometimes when you aim 1:51:15.200 --> 1:51:18.479 a camera on a smartphone at a bright light, you 1:51:18.600 --> 1:51:22.280 do sometimes see a floating orb in the picture. That 1:51:22.640 --> 1:51:25.400 is something that is common based on the small lenses. 1:51:25.840 --> 1:51:28.640 Maybe you're seeing more than the rest of us. In 1:51:28.800 --> 1:51:33.080 that case, be careful out there, all right, that's gonna 1:51:33.120 --> 1:51:34.760 do it. For this episode of the show. You can 1:51:34.840 --> 1:51:37.280 find links to everything I mentioned on my website. Just 1:51:37.320 --> 1:51:40.080 go to Rich on tech dot tv for the show notes. 1:51:40.520 --> 1:51:44.280 Happy shopping, and research those deals before you jump on them. 1:51:44.320 --> 1:51:46.280 Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways 1:51:46.320 --> 1:51:49.000 you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending 1:51:49.000 --> 1:51:51.800 it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes 1:51:51.880 --> 1:51:54.479 this show possible. My name is Rich Dmiro. I will 1:51:54.520 --> 1:51:55.800 talk to you very soon.